Sisters of the East End

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Sisters of the East End

Heart-warming tales of nursing and midwifery from the Sisters who worked with Jennifer Worth.

â€˜A secondâ€™s silence and then an almighty scream. It was the most moving thing I had ever seen â€¦ A baby, a real live baby, another human life had entered the world. It didnâ€™t seem possible and yet I had witnessed it with my very own eyes.â€™

Born into a happy working-class North London family in the mid-twentieth century, Katie is determined to â€˜do somethingâ€™ with her life. Working in the impoverished East End in the 1950s, she meets the Sisters of St John the Divine â€“ a community of nuns dedicated to nursing and midwifery. The Sisters have been present at births, cared for the sick and laid out the dead of the East Enders for a hundred years, and Katie soon joins them to start her journey to becoming Sister Catherine Mary.

As a nurse and midwife, Katie learns to deal with everything from strokes to breech births. Tragedy is never far away, but there are also moments of pure joy as lives are saved and the Poplar residents rally round. As a young novice Katie rallies against the vow of obedience, yet over the years learns much about the nature of dedication and love.

Full of desperate hardship, humour and compassion, Katieâ€™s story brings to life the unique world of these nursing Sisters in Londonâ€™s East End.

Sister Catherine Maryâ€™s story was written by Helen Batten after in-depth interviews with todayâ€™s Sisters of the Community of St John the Divine.

The Community of St John the Divine was founded in 1848 in a bid to make nursing a respectable profession. Early Sisters worked in the Crimea with Florence Nightingale and were instrumental in developing recognised training and qualifications for nurses and midwives. In the early 20th century they were working in areas such as Poplar and Deptford becoming a treasured part of the community. Today the Sisterhood is based in Birmingham and their website is www.csjd.org.uk.

Helen Batten studied history at Cambridge and then journalism at Cardiff University. She went on to become a producer and director at the BBC and now works as a writer and a psychotherapist. She lives in West London with her three daughters.

Country	USA
Author	Helen Batten
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781448175642
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Ebury Digital
Manufacturer	Ebury Digital
NumberOfPages	320
PublicationDate	2013-09-26
Publisher	Ebury Digital
ReleaseDate	2013-09-26
Studio	Ebury Digital

Sisters of the East End

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