It was one of those books that really made you want to go out there and read more about the field of midwifery. The first Call the Midwife book was great-it educated, titillated and intrigued. In the first book, Worth dabbled with narrative by going in and out of stories she was a part of-however these borrowed stories only added to the authenticity of Worth’s agenda, which was to bring awareness to midwifery and to show what heroic and selfless acts were done by the nuns and midwives living in the East End after WWII. Shadows of the Workhouse, the second in the midwife trilogy by former East End midwife Jennifer Worth, actually has almost nothing in it about midwifery, birth, or even Jennifer Worth. Since the rip-roaring success of my review of Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (What? You haven’t read it? That’s ok, look here), I decided that the best follow-up was to continue on the path Worth set before me and see if my feelings from the first book continued down the line. Call the Midwife: Shadows of the WorkhouseĪ Continued Conversation About Memoir, Voice, and Authenticity
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