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I bought this book a couple years ago after I finished watching the latest season of Call the Midwife at the time. It's one of my favorite shows and I wish I had read the books sooner, it's a lot more of a faithful adaptation than I expected. It was nice to revisit the stories I remember from the early seasons but get a more in-depth midwife perspective on them, along with more information about how the characters from the show were presented in the memoir. Honestly, I feel like the show should get a reward for how good of a book adaptation it is. My biggest criticism is that the opinions of the author herself can be a little outdated and touch on racist/sexist or generally problematic. The book also feels incomplete, some things are set up or hinted at and then don't reach a conclusion as if they were setup for sequels, which I didn't expect in a memoir.

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