Entries Tagged as 'Call the Midwife'

The Colorful World of London’s East End in the 1950s: Call the Midwife

March 10th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Incredibly moving, compassionate, shocking, funny, disturbing, and evocative of a time and place forever changed by the upheaval of post-World War II: Call the Midwife is Jennifer Worth’s memoir of her experiences as a midwife-in-training with an Anglican order of nuns in London’s Dockland slums in post-war 1950s. These dedicated nuns had worked amongst the poor […]

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Featured Audio Giveaway – March 2014 – Call the Midwife: The Shadows of the Workhouse

March 10th, 2014 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse (Volume 2 in the Trilogy) Jennifer Worth; read by Nicola Barber   A perfect choice for Women’s History Month! The sequel to Jennifer Worth’s New York Times bestselling memoir is a rich portrait of a bygone era of comradeship and midwifery populated by unforgettable characters. When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer […]

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Nicola Barber Returns to Narrate Call the Midwife Audiobooks

October 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

Nicola Barber is returning to read the remaining two titles in the Call the Midwife trilogy: Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell to the East End. Nicola Barber is an Award-Winning British voice actor originally from London. She has more than 12 years of voice acting experience. As one reviewer wrote of her reading of […]

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Calling All Midwives

October 3rd, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News

I’m pleased to announce . . . I’m thrilled to announce . . . I couldn’t be happier to announce . . . Isn’t there any other way to say this? How about: I’m ‘eaven and ‘ell chuffed ter tell what HighBridge has picked up the bloody rights to produce audiobook editions of the remaining […]

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