Shadows Of The Workhouse

Zusatztext Be warned! it´s a real tear-jerker - but it also makes you very grateful for the life we have today. Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, and was later ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London, then the Marie Curie Hospital, also in London. Music had always been her passion, and in 1973 she left nursing in order to study music intensively, teaching piano and singing for about 25 years. Jennifer died in May 2011 after a short illness, leaving her husband Philip, two daughters and three grandchildren. Her books have all been bestsellers. Klappentext A fascinating slice of East End life in postwar London, from the bestselling author of "Call The Midwife". Worth, who was a midwife working in the docklands area, tells more stories of people struggling in the face of tremendous poverty and deprivation, from the workhouse baby reputedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat to the eccentric 90-year old nun accused of shoplifting. A fascinating slice of East End life, from the No.1 bestsellilng author of CALL THE MIDWIFE, soon to be a major BBC TV series. Zusammenfassung A fascinating slice of East End life, from the No.1 bestsellilng author of CALL THE MIDWIFE, soon to be a major BBC TV series.

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A fascinating slice of East End life, from the No.1 bestsellilng author of CALL THE MIDWIFE, soon to be a major BBC TV series.

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Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, and was later ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London, then the Marie Curie Hospital, also in London. Music had always been her passion, and in 1973 she left nursing in order to study music intensively, teaching piano and singing for about 25 years. Jennifer died in May 2011 after a short illness, leaving her husband Philip, two daughters and three grandchildren. Her books have all been bestsellers.

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A fascinating slice of East End life in postwar London, from the bestselling author of "Call The Midwife". Worth, who was a midwife working in the docklands area, tells more stories of people struggling in the face of tremendous poverty and deprivation, from the workhouse baby reputedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat to the eccentric 90-year old nun accused of shoplifting.