Shadows ​of the Workhouse (The Midwife Trilogy 2.) 7 csillagozás

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In ​this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House – she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy and Frank's parents both died within 6 months of each other and the children were left destitute. At the time, there was no other option for them but the workhouse. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton, a missionary in Africa, visits the Nonnatus nuns and Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker. And Sister Monica Joan, the eccentric ninety-year-old nun, is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. She is let off with a warning, but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun's room. These stories give a fascinating insight into the resilience and spirit that enabled ordinary people to overcome… (tovább)

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HighBridge, Prince Frederick, 2014
ISBN: 9781622313440 · Felolvasta: Nicola Barber
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Ecco, New York, 2013
304 oldal · ISBN: 9780062270054
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Ecco, New York, 2013
294 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780062270047

4 további kiadás


Enciklopédia 1

Szereplők népszerűség szerint

Sister Monica Joan


Most olvassa 2

Várólistára tette 4

Kívánságlistára tette 1


Kiemelt értékelések

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Jennifer Worth: Shadows of the Workhouse

Jennifer Worth memoárjai olyan líraisággal íródtak, mintha regényt olvasnánk. Egyszer kacagunk a komikus élethelyzeteken, máskor könnyeinket töröljük mert annyira meghatóan adja át a lélek történéseit. Sister Monica Joan az egyik kedvenc szereplőm, ebben a könyvben központi szerepet kap aminek külön örültem. Míg a sorozat első részében a szülésznői hivatás kerül középpontba, ebben a könyvben a fókusz a múlt hozadékain van, valamint az időskori betegápoláson, legyen az lelki vagy fizikai. Izgalmas ez a könyv, mert nem szokványos bepillantást nyerhetünk abba, hogyan dolgoztak a nővérek és az apácák együtt, hogy jobbá, elviselhetőbbé tegyék az emberek életét több évtizeden keresztül Poplarban. Mindenkinek ajánlani tudom a könyvet és a könyvekből készült BBC sorozatot is.


Népszerű idézetek

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„Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!”

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Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Sister Monica Joan
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Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!

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I once heard, in the 1950s, what used to be called „the workhouse howl” emitted from the throat of a woman who had been a workhouse inmate for about twenty years in the early twentieth century. It was a noise to make your blood run cold.

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An eager pupil is the breath of life to a dedicated teacher.

31. oldal

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Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.

104. oldal

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The knowledge of rejection, of being unwanted, is more terrible to live with than anything else, and a rejected child will usually never get over it. A physical pain entered Jane's body, somewhere in the region of the solar plexus, which ached all the time and from which she would never be free.

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Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.


A sorozat következő kötete

Jennifer Worth: Farewell to the East End The Last Days of the East End Midwives

The Midwife Trilogy sorozat · Összehasonlítás

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