Yes!
I'll be in the UK at the time again of the Christmas Special so cannot wait for the next installment.
It's rumored they had to leave Nonnatus House and get another accommodation. (Which I think has something to do with in real life the house in the set being torn down also.)
But perhaps that was just a rumor.
The books are hard to read sometimes because they are so very, very tragic.
But it helps a bit to know most of it is utterly fictional, in terms of those being actual people. She seems to have melded actual people together with real stories she heard about others.
Only some situations actually happened to her, or are what Worth personally observed. Even all the nuns were not specific people. She spells out in an epilogue who was real and who was not.
The light bulb finally went on for me as to how fictional it was in the second and third books when she was writing long, expository scenes of dialog between two people that were taking place in 1910 in a workhouse, and things like that. It was clear then she was making it up, but basing it on accurate histories she had heard about and their settings.
Also, it seems she was a midwife working out of the nunnery for a very short while really. No way could she have had all those experiences first hand in such a short period. And she never claimed to.
It seems between the lines and in interviews from her daughters that she drew alot of the plots and characters from CTM from stories she heard from others when she continued to work for awhile in a hospital as ward nurse, located also in the East End.
But that's what good writers do, I guess. They write down stories they hear and pay attention, and use it.
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