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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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