Many readers will have viewed this charming and engaging BBC TV series but the TV series is based on a book by Jennifer Worth. (It can be purchased for under AUD$12 and can be highly recommended.) It's superbly written by a talented author with a wonderful gift for the language who has obviously lived through a tumultuous time all but forgotten: deep joy, ecstasy, huge sorrow and pain, wonderful camaraderie, amid the great dedication of nurses and mid-wife Anglican nuns to their respective callings in the squalor and material deprivation of the East End of London following WW2. Jenny at 22 (the author) comes to work as a midwife with a group of sometimes feisty nuns of the Midwives of St Raymond Nonnatus (patron saint of childbirth, midwives, children, pregnant women) and other non-professed, young midwives at a residence called 'Nonnatus' near the London docklands. She is fleeing a love affair that ended badly but soon finds herself baptised into a life of relentless wor...
we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen --Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles