Making Babies
the Sunday Times bestselling memoir of stumbling into motherhood
$24.31
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2022
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099437628 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099437627 |
| Author: | Anne Enright |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 146g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
1000 kilometres away from baby whisperer books, and one every petrified parent-to-be should read.
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 *
About The Author
Anne Enright
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and six novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gais Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature.
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