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. (20040922)
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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 (Sunday Times )
Making Babies is an absolute joy, the perfect, intelligent antidote to poisonous books on the subject (India Knight )
An unadulterated delight...suffused with a sense of love and very, very funny (Maggie O'Farrell 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 )
Making Babies is an absolute joy, the perfect, intelligent antidote to poisonous books on the subject (India Knight )
An unadulterated delight...suffused with a sense of love and very, very funny (Maggie O'Farrell 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 )
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The Sunday Times and Irish Top Ten bestseller book about motherhood. (20040922)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By L. Hogan
Format:Paperback
This is the best book Ive read about pregnancy and motherhood. I liked the "dispatches from the front line" style, giving the sense of how disjointed life becomes when you have a new baby. I was really able to relate to the author and often found myself nodding in agreement with her sentiments. I often feel like I am inhabited by a little stranger, an alien. I found this book to be a great antidote to both the pink and fluffy "mother hood is amazing" and to the "warts and bodily fluids" humourous books out there. I felt that her writing was beautiful, sparse and clear, yet with warm humour. Some images were so vivid. I would reccomend this book to you if you have had enough of the Pink and Fluffy pregnancy books, or, if like me, you arent madly maternal. Its definetly a book I'll read and enjoy again
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Michelle
Format:Paperback
I loved this book. For me it was a revelation to find someone who has recorded so many of the complex emotions that pregnancy and motherhood brought forth within me. Anne Enright writes of the daily contrast between the raw joy and delight that your children can bring you accompanied by the sheer frustation and boredom that you can also experience, often within the same hour. It is brilliantly written and has a honesty and candour that mark it apart. I bought a copy for two of my friends as soon as I finished it.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By Ellie
Format:Paperback
The best, honestly the *best* book on motherhood and pregnancy I've ever read. It's a remarkable, lucid account of what it is to be 'taken over' by this inexcorable state of mind and body, and the unthought-of pleasures and new anxieties that accompany a first child. It's certainly not a practical guide to being pregnant and having a child (there seems to be a misunderstanding about this, which accounts for the two negative reviews - do people not read blurbs or flick through a book before buying it? Odd) but I'd still recommend it to anyone pregnant for the first time, or finding themselves with a new baby and unprepared for the emotional turmoil that this brings.
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interesting...
I bought this as a bit of light relief while on materninty leave, whilst going out of my mind! I liked bits of it, but found the writing style a bit too random occasionally. Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2010 by Angela
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A consolation fore those who do not really know whether they prefer...
To me personally that was a waste of time and money. A very opinionated, not really well researched or thought through, middling account of a personal rather mediocre experience... Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2009 by deusbat
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Not all that great- and some passages offensive.
I didn't really enjoy the book. I just couldn't find a connection with the author and I found the narrative jumped around too much. Read more
Published on 12 May 2006 by sammyantha
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Fantastic
"Making Babies" is a brilliant antidote to the pastel-coloured, cheery-cutesy fodder that proliferates everywhere an expectant mother looks. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2006 by "e59"
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Very true
I found this book very drily funny and very true to my own experiences. I would recommend it to any educated woman thinking of swapping a successful career for the "domestic... Read more
Published on 30 Jan 2006 by Stephanie
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Charming and true
I found this book delightful- a witty, honest and beautiful account of motherhood. Please don't be put off by the negative review here- I think the reviewer may have been... Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2006 by E. Coulter
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Dreadful dreadful read!
My husband and I are trying for a baby, I bought this book thinking it would be a heartwarming but helpful read. Read more
Published on 1 Jan 2006 by Rebecca Shields
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Stumbling into Motherhood!
I wouldn't say this book is especially useful but it does provide reassurance that there are days (and plenty of them) when you don't feel like part of the human race; that being... Read more
Published on 5 April 2005
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Frank, poignant, and funny
I have to read this book in bite-size chunks because otherwise I'll finish it too quickly. It is beautifully written and is the perfect foil to all those... Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2004
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stark empathy
I laughed so much that it reminded me what stress incontinence was all about. A book for mothers that it so well written, even fathers will like it.
Published on 14 Sep 2004
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