Jennifer Worth Books in Order

Jennifer Worth is a British author, midwife, and musician, renowned for her poignant and insightful writing. Born Jennifer Lee, she was raised in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, after her parents' holiday in Clacton-on-Sea. Worth's career spanned nursing and the arts, with stints as a secretary, staff nurse, ward sister, and midwife in London's esteemed hospitals. Her work with the Sisters of St John the Divine, an Anglican community of nuns, further deepened her connection with the community she would later write about. After marrying artist Philip Worth in 1963, she retired from nursing in 1973 to pursue her musical interests, becoming a licentiate of the London College of Music and a fellow in 1984. Worth's writing debut came with 'Call the Midwife', published in 2002, which became a bestseller upon its reissue in 2007. Her subsequent memoirs, 'Shadows of the Workhouse' and 'Farewell to the East End', achieved similar success, selling nearly a million copies in the UK.