She also earned the confidences of some whose lives were truly stranger, more poignant and more terrifying than could ever be recounted in fiction. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and tragedy, she also met with amazing kindness and understanding, tempered by a great deal of Cockney humour.
The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.
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