Penguin Books Winter 2013 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group
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Penguin Books Winter 2013 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group
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Photo: Used with permission from the BBC and Neal Street Productions<br />
ISbN 978-0-14-312325-5 $16.00 (NCR)<br />
Memoir 5 5 /16 x 8 352 pp. Rights: C00<br />
Pub history: <strong>Penguin</strong> pb 978-0-14-311623-3<br />
(as The Midwife) On sale: 8/29/2012<br />
SuggeSTeD ORDeR<br />
“ Jennifer Worth’s memories of her years<br />
as a midwife in the East End were at once<br />
hilariously horrible and tremendously<br />
moving.” —Ayelet Waldman, author of<br />
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits<br />
The highest-rated drama in BBC history<br />
comes to PBS Presents in September 2012<br />
Call the Midwife<br />
A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times<br />
Jennifer Worth<br />
Fans of Downton Abbey and Mad Men have something to look<br />
forward to this September with this candid look at post-war<br />
London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her<br />
comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife<br />
in London’s East End slums. While delivering babies all over the<br />
city, Jenny encounters a colorful cast of women—from the plucky,<br />
warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with<br />
twenty-four children who can’t speak English, to the prostitutes<br />
of the city’s seedier side.<br />
Based on Jennifer Worth’s bestselling memoirs and already<br />
a bigger hit than Downton Abbey in the U.K., Call the Midwife<br />
promises to delight millions of viewers in the U.S.<br />
n The 6-part series will premiere on Sunday, September 30, on PBS, leading<br />
into the Masterpiece Classic presentation of Upstairs Downstairs<br />
n Cast includes Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Raine (The Woman in Black),<br />
and Pam Ferris (Little Dorrit, Luther)<br />
n The season finale was watched by more than 9 million viewers in the<br />
U.K.—making it the highest-rated drama in BBC history<br />
Snap here to<br />
view the<br />
BBC trailer<br />
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