Strange Bodies
A Father’s Story of Pregnancy and Loss
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Granta Books
Published:13th Feb '25
Should be back in stock very soon
A deeply moving love letter from an artist to his wife as they struggle with the loss of multiple pregnancies.
A deeply moving love letter from an artist to his wife as they struggle with the loss of multiple pregnancies, exploring how powerful bonds transform as lovers become family.In 2020, artist Tom de Freston and his wife, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, discovered they were expecting twins. But Kiran miscarried, and thus began a long road to parenthood that saw the loss of six more pregnancies. Pulsing with wonder and insight, Strange Bodies is both a deeply moving chronicle of this journey - of the role of art in making sense of grief and of the struggle to create new life - and a love letter to Kiran, exploring how powerful bonds transform as lovers become family.
Unlike anything I've read before... A profound and generous book about life's fundamentals - the prenatal state, the heartbreaking experiences of miscarriage the fragility and miracle of life - written in beautiful, poetic, polymathic prose -- Lucy Jones
A rare combination of breathtaking joy with deeply heartbreaking moments... A book about love and hope that transcends grief -- Pragya Agarwal
I was hollowed out by Strange Bodies and then put back together. A book full of love that makes you see what really matters, both in art and life. Clever, tender, completely compelling -- Ella Risbridger
Strange Bodies opens up loss and creation with generous, sensuous intelligence. The book is an intimate and loving record of an experience too often overlooked, and a revealing investigation into the mysterious ways that matter comes alive -- Caleb Klaces
Remarkable. A careful drawing-forth: art and interior landscapes mingle and the reader becomes wholly absorbed, emerging horrified, grief-stricken, uplifted and profoundly moved -- Helen Mort
Profoundly moving [and] full of wonder * Bookseller *
ISBN: 9781783789917
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