Call the midwife. Shadows of East End. Warf D.

From the beginning of the 1950s to the mid-1970s, Jennifer Warf has worked as a midwife in the Poor London District East End. In a city covered with scars of a recent war with dilapidated houses, wastelands and blocked streets, she recognized the stories of those who remembered even more severe times.

Poverty and hunger forced people to look for a shelter in work houses, which were a real tragedy. Marabled families, exhausting work and cruel punishments for the offenses were their daily reality. Officially closed in 1930, work houses lasted until the middle of the twentieth century: thousands of people remained there, and they all had nowhere to go.

“Shadows of East End” are stories about unimaginable difficulties, stamina and strength of the human spirit and the annals of life, which today seems incredible.

Jennifer Warf's trilogy “Call the midwife” became the undoubted bestseller and formed the basis of the series of the same name by BBC. He collected more than ten million spectators from the screens and became the most successful dramatic series on the BBC ONE TV channel since 2001.