Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth

Shadows of the Workhouse

The Midwife Trilogy #2

Jennifer Worth with Nicola Barber (Narrator)

10 hours, 14 minutes first pub 2005 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Description

The follow-up to the "New York Times" bestseller "Call the Midwife," now a PBS hit series.When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she n...

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Moods

emotional 85%
informative 85%
reflective 61%
sad 59%
inspiring 33%
dark 29%
challenging 25%
hopeful 24%
adventurous 5%
funny 5%
lighthearted 3%
relaxing 3%
tense 1%

Pace

medium 60%
slow 24%
fast 15%

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3.98

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