The Book Trotters, the Lakewood book club that vicariously travels the globe through their book selections, “visited England” this month, but were back at Lakewood’s Times Ten Cellar for their Monday night meeting..
The read took them to the East End of London during the 1950’s as they experienced Jennifer Worth’s, “The Midwife Trilogy, Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell to the East End.”
The stories chronicle Worth's career from her arrival at Nonnatus House where she lived with the nuns and worked as a midwife in the war-scarred, poverty-seized Docklands to the eventual demolition of the tenements and subsequent closure of Nonnatus House.
Julie Germann Do selected the series (also a popular PBS serial run) and in keeping with the English theme served delightful tea sandwiches of cucumber and strawberry and fruit with clotted cream at the meeting. Other contributions to the table included lemon curd, digestive biscuits and Madeira cake.
The Book Trotters will stay close to home next month to celebrate the 4th of July.