Call The Midwife

基本信息

Author: Jennifer SRN SCM Worth

Language: English

Paperback: 368 pages 

Publisher: Orion (5 Jan 2012)

ISBN: 9780753827871

Weight: 272g

Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 25 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

20世纪50年代的伦敦东区人们，过着艰苦的生活。22岁的助产士詹妮•李来到这里，遇见了志同道合而性格迥异的同事与修女，也在逐渐融入当地人们的生活的过程中，见证了他们时而让人哀伤心碎、时而鼓舞人心的生命故事。有笑有泪，生死轮回，是漫长生命里的终极治愈。现在它已经改变了世界。

Here are the real-life stories that inspired the BBC TV series Call The Midwife. London's East End in the 1950s was characterised by tight-knit family communities, larger-than-life characters, and a lively social scene. It was into this world that Jennifer Worth entered as a trainee midwife. But life was tough, and babies were often born in slum conditions. In Call The Midwife, Shadows Of The Workhouse and Farewell To The East End, Jennifer recounts her time among nuns, prostitutes, abortionists, bigamists, gangsters and expectant mothers, eloquently portraying the East Enders' amazing resilience, their warmth and humour in the face of hardship, and the traditions and tales of a bygone era.

作者简介

珍妮弗•沃斯曾于英国雷丁的皇家伯克郡医院（Royal Berkshire Hospital）接受专业护士训练，后移居伦敦接受助产士培训，结业后调派至白教堂区的皇家伦敦医院（Royal London Hospital）担任病房护士，也曾调至尤斯顿的伊丽莎白•盖瑞•安德森医院（Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital）工作。退休后开始动笔写作，以真实生动的文笔，刻画出过去身为护理人员时所目睹的20世纪50年代英国伦敦人民生活的景象。2011年与世长辞，无缘得见据其回忆录改编之同名BBC电视剧。

Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. She then moved to London to train as a midwife. She later became a staff nurse at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, and then ward sister and sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Euston. Music had always been her passion, and in 1973 Jennifer left nursing in order to study music intensively, gaining the Licentiate of the London College of Music in 1974 and a Fellowship ten years later. Jennifer married Philip Worth in 1963 and they lived together in Hertfordshire. She died in May 2011, leaving her husband, two daughters and three grandchildren. Her memoirs are the basis for the popular TV series Call the Midwife.