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by Jennifer Worth (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: ISIS Publishing; Lrg edition (1 May 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 075319368X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753193686
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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'Worth is a vivid writer with a talent for the sting in the tail... a highly readable book - and a must for social planners.' --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.


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'Worth is a vivid writer with a talent for the sting in the tail... a highly readable book - and a must for social planners.' (EVENING STANDARD )

'Jennifer Worth has a gift for storytelling and a keen eye for the evocative' (BBC WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? )

'These are powerful stories delivered with sweet charm and controlled outrage.' (TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT )

'Healthcare workers could learn a great deal from reading this book... compassionate, non-judgemental... tears rolled down my cheeks reading the final chapters.' (NURSING STANDARD ) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I will never complain about my life being hard ever again!, 30 Dec 2005
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This review is from: Shadows of the Workhouse (Paperback)
If you enjoyed Call the Midwife, you will definately enjoy this book, although the content is not midwifery related. There are three parts to the book, each containing stories of people who the author had known through her work.

Her descriptions of the hardship and poverty of early 1900's London, along with personal tragedy and sacrifice will make you weep, and feel thankful to be living in the 21st Century.

- Frank and Peggy, brother and sister, separated from their parents by death and then from each other by the workhouse... courage, hope, joy, and a real tear-jerker ending.

- Joe Collett - this story is a testament to the truly caring and generous spirit of the author - she goes above and beyond the call of duty in my opinion to befriend an old man - and hears a tale of army life and family courage spanning three wars, with more than a touch of tragedy along the way.

Beautifully written, I could not put it down.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Truly Definitive Account of the Meaning of Poverty, 5 Aug 2008
This review is from: Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London (Hardcover)
I was born in the East End in the 1950's, and still live there. However, Jennifer's account has brought to life the tales my parents and grandparents told me about how much a struggle life was for so many people, barely a bus ride from where I was living. Jennifer's portrayal of Mr. Collet's demise in an 'old folk's home', in the 60's, which was little better than the workhouses of 30 years previously starkly reminds us that man's inhumanity to man can come in many different forms, no matter how affluent / civilised / reformed our societies pretend to be. This book should be read by anyone who works in public office, if only to remind them that the attitudes and conditions of the recent past have not gone away; they're still out there and will come back if we allow them to.
Jennifer's comparison of modern East London tower blocks and housing estates taking the place of the old tenements tells us that rather than improving conditions, society has simply torn down the old and replaced them with tacky copies. Jennifer Worth should have gone into politics, for judging from her excellent books, this is one person who would have made a real difference. Next time I travel through Poplar, Limehouse and Stepney, I will now do so with a new interest.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Both heart-warming and heart-breaking at once, 12 Oct 2008
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This review is from: Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London (Hardcover)
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!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Shadows of the Workhouse- Jennifer Worth.
Read in conjuction with her other two works it tells a harrowing but humourous tale of life in the East End of London up to the 1960's from the point of view of a midwife. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. Barbara E. Hinde

5.0 out of 5 stars Shadows of the workhouse
This book is quite a roller coaster of emotions, lots of sad bits but also happy endings. It gives a gripping account of life in the workhouse and its effect on the children in... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mrs. H. R. Hersey

4.0 out of 5 stars A very thought-provoking book
I would agree with he last reviewer's overall assessment of this book. Unfortunately, for reasons I don't understand, her review is about Jennifer Worth's other novel, "Call the... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mike Heron

2.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointing
I picked up this book hoping to learn all about life in the Workhouse's in East London. Instead there were a couple of perfunctory and pointless chapters about past inmates. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Thalia

5.0 out of 5 stars East End Life Come to Light
Jennifer Worth writes with such pathos. Equally she is able to deliver her story in a highly readable style which makes it extremely enjoyable . Read more
Published 4 months ago by Stanley J. Marut

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read
I loved this book. The facts about the workhouse are fascinating and the story telling by the author is engaging, entertaining,funny in someplaces, and very sad in others... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Jane Ashe

5.0 out of 5 stars The Characters and their stories will touch you forever
I couldn't put this book down. The descriptions of the poor houses and how they were run hooked me from the first page, I ran the gamut of emotions throughout, I left one public... Read more
Published 10 months ago by T. Powell-Morris

4.0 out of 5 stars Shadows of the Workhouse
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It was very heart warming and sad at the same time. I felt the writer really captured the atmosphere of those hard times. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Pauline Flynn

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent follow up to Call the Midwife... can't wait for the third book
I read this book in 24 hours- I just could not put it down. I had high expectations, having "enjoyed" Call the Midwife. Read more
Published 14 months ago by C. Riddell

4.0 out of 5 stars midwifery in the raw
This is a excellent book in many ways. It tells of a young woman's training in midwifery, undertaken under the supervision of an order of nuns whose mission was nursing and... Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2007 by Ms. A. McGregor

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