AUDIO

Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse

by Jennifer Worth
8 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 10½ hrs. HighBridge Audio. 2014. ISBN 9781622313440. $39.95; 8 CDs. library ed.; 1 MP3-CD. retail ed.; digital download. MEMOIR
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This memoir is one of three in which Worth (Call the Midwife; Farewell to the East End) recounts her experiences as a midwife in London's East End in the 1950s. They were recently adapted for a BBC television series, Call the Midwife (now in its third season). The quality and pacing of the audio is excellent. The narrator, Nicola Barber, is a perfect match for the memoir and vividly recounts the hardships and poverty that Worth encountered during that time. The stories are not all about pregnancy and childbirth but also depict a poor community with a sense of family and caring.
VERDICT Excellent for all public libraries.
Reviewed by Michele Lauer-Bader, Half Hollow Hills Community Lib., Dix Hills, NY , May 01, 2014
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