Call the Midwife (book)

This article is about the book. For the TV adaptation, see Call the Midwife.
Call the Midwife
First paperback edition, 2002 (Merton)
AuthorJennifer Worth
LanguageEnglish
GenreMemoir
Publisher
  • Merton Books (2002)
  • Orion (UK, 2007)
Publication date
2002 / 2007
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages368
ISBN0-7538-2383-7
Followed byShadows of the Workhouse 

Call the Midwife, later called Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s, is a memoir by Jennifer Worth, and the first in a trilogy of books describing her work as a district nurse and midwife in the East End of London during the 1950s. Worth wrote the book after retiring from a subsequent career as a musician, and it was originally published in July 2002.[1][2] Reissued in 2007, it became a bestseller, as did the sequel Shadows of the Workhouse (2005, reissued 2008) and the final volume Farewell to the East End (2009). By the time of Jennifer Worth’s death in June 2011, her books had already sold almost a million copies.[3] In 2012, the popular BBC/PBS adaptation of the trilogy boosted sales further, and all four of the author's books about the East End (the "Midwife trilogy" and In the Midst of Life (2010)) went back into the charts.

  1. ^ Worth, Jennifer (2002). Call The Midwife. Orion. p. 368. ISBN 0-7538-2383-7.
  2. ^ Worth. Call the Midwife, December 2002 reprinting. Copyright page. ISBN 1-872560-10-5.
  3. ^ "Call The Midwife Author Worth Dies". The Bookseller. 6 June 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2012.