Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London |
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 | Matthew Parris states in the blurb on the back of the book that reading this made him cry on a crowded train. It managed to make me burst into floods of tears in the middle of Schipol Airport at 6am - not many books manage to make me cry anywhere - let alone in public. It's a wonderfully evocative read, based on Worth's life working as midwife in 1950s London. The fascinatingly detailed descriptions of the housing, the patients, the costermongers and the nuns make the book quite un-put-down-able I found. The story of Sister Monica Joan is poignant yet makes you smile with every other line, whereas the story of Joe is heartbreaking from the off. I can't wait for the next instalment of Worth's memoirs! read more.
Written by Jennifer Worth.
Published 26 June 2008.
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
rrp £12.99.
304 pages Hardcover.
ISBN: 0297853260
ISBN-13: 9780297853268 | |
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