A fascinating slice of East End life in postwar London, from the bestselling author of }Call The Midwife{.
Worth, who was a midwife working in the docklands area, tells more stories of people struggling in the face of tremendous poverty and deprivation, from the workhouse baby reputedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat to the eccentric 90-year old nun accused of shoplifting.
Phoenix House Shadows of the workhouse, paperback/jennifer worth
