Adult Book Discussion
Date: Wed. January 23, 2013
Time: 6:30 pm
Location:
Canaryville
642 W. 43rd Street
60609
About this event:
Join us as we discuss Call the Midwife: a memoir of Birth, Joy and Hard Times, by Jennifer Worth. An unforgettable story of the joy of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the hope of one extraordinary woman. At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London-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 and dockers of the city's seedier side-illuminate a fascinating time in history. Beautifully written and utterly moving, The Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is, and everyone who has, a mother.
Refreshments will be provided.
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