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Author:
Lucy Jones
Publisher:
Pantheon
Date:
May 7, 2024
An inquiry â personal and scientific â into what happens mentally, spiritually, and physically during the process of becoming a mother, from pregnancy and childbirth to early motherhood.
What The Reviewers Say
The best book I’ve ever read about motherhood.
A boundary-pushing book that is altogether tricksier, more complex and creative.
An ambitious, wide-ranging work that is at once memoir, analysis and social study.
There are things that jarred. Jones sometimes lacks a sense of perspective or humour about motherhood. It is as if nobody has ever given birth or struggled with a crying baby before. There is a danger of catastrophising a natural process that is part of life, of denigrating a state that some women long for and are denied.
