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By (author) Anne Enright; By (author) Enright Anne
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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.
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1000 kilometres away from baby whisperer books, and one every petrified parent-to-be should read.
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1000 kilometres away from baby whisperer books, and one every petrified parent-to-be should read.
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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
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Making Babies is an absolute joy, the perfect, intelligent antidote to poisonous books on the subject
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An unadulterated delight…suffused with a sense of love and very, very funny
Biographical note
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 Gáis 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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The Sunday Times and Irish Top Ten bestseller book about motherhood.
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