TY  - BOOK
AU  - Batten,Helen
TI  - Sisters of the East End: the real stories of the Sisters who inspired Call the midwife 
T2  - Magna
SN  - 9780750539197 (hbk.)
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Long Preston [England]
PB  - Magna
KW  - Catherine Mary
KW  - Community of St. John the Divine
KW  - Nurses
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Midwives
KW  - Large type books
N2  - Born into a working-class North London family, Katie is determined to 'do something' with her life. Working in the impoverished East End in the 1950s, she meets the Sisters of St John the Divine - 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 for a hundred years, and Katie soon joins them to start her journey to becoming Sister Catherine Mary. As a novice Katie rallies against the vow of obedience, yet as a nurse and midwife she learns much about the nature of dedication, love and tragedy
ER  -