Call the Midwife
Jennifer Worth
Penguin Publishing Group
<p><b>The highest-rated drama in BBC history, <i>Call the Midwife</i> will delight </b><b>fans of <i>Downton Abbey</i></b><br> <br> Viewers everywhere have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in London's East End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a colorful cast of women&#8212;from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English, to the prostitutes of the city's seedier side. <br> <br> Based on Jennifer Worth's bestselling memoirs, <i>Call the Midwife</i> is the true story behind the beloved PBS series. <br>