Foxing throughout and long inscription inside front cover.

Life in London's East End in the 1950s was tough. The brothels of Cabel Street, the Kray brothers and gang warfare, the meths drinkers in the bombsites - this was the world Worth entered when she became a midwife at the age of 22. Babies were born in slum conditions, often with no running water. Funny, disturbing and moving, this book brings to life a world that has now changed beyond measure...