Making Babies
the Sunday Times bestselling memoir of stumbling into motherhood
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:4th Aug '05
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The Sunday Times and Irish Top Ten bestseller book about motherhood.
Presents a funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, the author has the rush of good news - full of the mess, the glory, and the raw shock of it all. She also bears a visceral and dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood.
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'An unadulterated delight...suffused with a sense of love and very, very funny' Maggie O'Farrell
It's 2004 and Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy.
Making Babies, is the intimate, engaging, and very funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, it has the rush of good news - full of the mess, the glory, and the raw shock of it all.
An antidote to the high-minded, polemical 'How-to' baby manuals, Making Babies also bears a visceral and dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood. Anne Enright wrote the truth of it as it happened, because, for these months and years, it is impossible for a woman to lie.
1000 kilometres away from baby whisperer books, and one every petrified parent-to-be should read. * Image *
1000 kilometres away from baby whisperer books, and one every petrified parent-to-be should read. * Image *
Fizzingly entertaining. Reading it is like having a conversation with your funniest friend. Enright has pulled off that rarest of tricks: writing brilliantly about happiness * Sunday Times *
Making Babies is an absolute joy, the perfect, intelligent antidote to poisonous books on the subject
An unadulterated delight...suffused with a sense of love and very, very funny * Daily Telegraph *
Gasp-making, jaw-dropping and eloquently astounding * Irish Indepedent *
Enright is such an original and witty writer. Her tone is utterly unsentimental and kept reducing me to tears * Zoe Heller *
Anne Enright is an eloquent writer...dazzlingly funny
Making Babies is not just a good book, it's a good thing. It induces hope. It creates an appetite for life. It is also a very effective contraceptive * Ian Sansom *
A hopelessly vivid maker of sentence, of the sort you can't help reading aloud to whoever happens to be nearby... Ms. Enright's commentary on gender politics and babies, like a swimming pool illuminated by underwater lights, also casts an entrancingly strange glow * New York Times *
ISBN: 9780099437628
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 13mm
Weight: 149g
208 pages