Previously published as: The Midwife (Penguin Books, 2009)

Call the midwife -- Nonnatus House -- Morning visits -- Chummy -- Molly -- The bicycle -- Antenatal clinic -- Rickets -- Eclampsia -- Fred -- A Christmas baby -- A breech delivery -- Jimmy -- Len & Concita Warren -- Sister Monica Joan -- Mary -- Zakir -- Cable Street -- Cafe life -- Flight -- sister Evangelina -- Mrs. Jenkins -- Rosie -- The workhouse -- The bottom dropped out of pigs -- Of mixed descent I -- Of mixed descent II -- Of mixed descent III -- The luncheon party -- Smog -- The flying squad -- A premature baby -- Old, old age -- In the beginning

Jennifer Worth was just twenty-two when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. Coming from a sheltered background there were tough lessons to be learned. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying

"First published in Great Britain as Call the midwife by Merton Books 2002"--Title page verso