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Barbara

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Barbara Hereward is a compassionate nurse-midwife working in London's impoverished East End during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Despite her middle-class background as a vicar's daughter, her upbringing in Liverpool exposed her to poverty and prepared her for the challenges of Poplar, where her genuine kindness and growing confidence make her beloved by colleagues and patients alike.

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