Rate this book

The Midwife's Here! The Enchanting True Story Of One Of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives (2012)

by Linda Fairley(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0007446306 (ISBN13: 9780007446308)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Harper Element

review 1: I’ve always been fascinated by midwifery and after loving PBS’ Call the Midwife and seeking out Jennifer Worth’s first memoir of her own time as a midwife in London’s East End – this seemed like a perfect fit. I think this is an excellent example of the different between someone who is a good storyteller and a good writer. The author was Britain’s longest serving midwife and this memoir focuses heavily on her training and early experiences in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She has great stories, but sometimes the connectors are stilted or awkward. Overall, a good read but it didn’t suck me or enthrall me the way Worth’s book did.
review 2: Quite simply written, Linda's voice is very clear; I could almost hear the words being spoken, as if s... morehe were in another room and talking to me. This covers her first few years, from entering nursing school at age 18 in the 1960s to qualifying and serving as a midwife. It's most interesting to see how things have changed: when she first started there were three 10-hour nursing shifts, nurses washed patients and remade their beds every day, nurses wore starched caps, detachable cuffs and were supervised by Matron, natural birth was the default... even for confirmed triplets! And then there are the other fashions, such as breast- or bottle-feeding, home- or hospital-birth, laying babies down on their fronts or their backs, all of which changed (sometimes repeatedly).As Linda said, "You never stop being surprised when you are a midwife", and her stories seem to hold that out as she tells of funny, surprising, tragic, heartwarming or challenging moments in the early part of her career. less

Download links for: The Midwife's Here! The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives

Advertising