The first two series and the 2012 christmas special of the bbc drama adapted from jennifer worths memoirs about a group of midwives working in east london in the 1950s jenny lee jessica raine gets her first job at nonnatus house which she soon realises is a nursing convent and not a hospital as she had assumed as she begins caring for patients she gradually becomes accustomed to her new environment making friends with fellow midwives cynthia bryony hannah trixie helen george and the