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blewballoon 's review for:
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
by Jennifer Worth
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
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 My biggest criticism is that the opinions of the author herself can be a little outdated and touch on racist/sexist or generally problematic.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.
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Pregnancy
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Racism, Violence, Medical trauma, War
Minor: Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, War, Injury/Injury detail