I picked this up at a charity shop today. Turns out that the book is a bit like ‘James Herriot’. However, for some reason Matthew Parris (of all people) says, it made him cry’.
It will take me a while to read it as it is a bit of a ‘thick book’ but it looks interesting and entertaining. I have an interest in the East End and my family helped run the London Hospital where she worked at one time.
I love her 30s bike on the back of the book.
Update 9/12/08 still reading!
I was touched by one of the chapters about how a teenage boy in the scruffy parts of London helped this midwife to ride a bicycle. Turns out she thanked him and bought a bike for him. He later became a time trial cyclist and eventually, became Princess Diana’s bodyguard.
So far, an excellent and compelling book.
