Given to me by my sister Hayley and her partner Graeme.

I started watching Call The Midwife on Netflix a while ago but I struggled to get into it and abandoned it. This book however, is brilliant. Thank goodness medical knowledge has come on so much in the last 60 years! I found this book gripping, knowing giving birth could be a death sentence, the horrible conditions people lived in and the cold. It's been pretty cold the last few days and even with my central heating and highly insulated house, I'm cold. Imagine what it must have been like before, it must have been unbearable. I loved how Jenny told her stories and how she brought the people she had known to life.

I can't wait to read her other books. I've also started watching the tv show again and finding it much more to my liking :)

The only complaint about this book is the ending, it just stops, there is no conclusion and I was left flicking the pages wondering how that could be the end.

Happy Christmas :)

This wishlist book arrived in a huge box together with another book and a heap of chocolate and hot chocolate powder, all neatly in Christmas wrapping. I've been delivering mostly puppies, a calf (by c-section), a foal and some kittens, so it's high time I'll read about how it used to be done on the human side. Thanks!

Borrowed this from Kirjakko for travel read when travelling in Yorkshire and London. The problem was that in the evenings I was so tired I fell asleep although the book was interesting.
It is very well written. Amazing that it tells about the fifties (I'm born in 1960), how poor people were and lived in such primitive surroundings. I've seen some episodes of the series, which I have also liked (often you like either or). The people she describes are quite characters!!
I was surprised to read about the revolution of the Pill. Before it the midwives in that area had 100 deliveries per week, five years after the pill they had only five a week. Most babies were born at home and the midwives made their calls by bicycle. An old spinster like me have learned so many things from this book!
I've started the second book of the series already. This goes back to Kirjakko.