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The Sunday Times and Irish Top Ten Bestselling book about motherhood
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Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. Her new book, 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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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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 bliss" of motherhood to read this for an honest preview of their first year.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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 21 months ago by Angela
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
So true
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. Read more
Published on 8 Jun 2008 by Michelle
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
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"
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
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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