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Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood Paperback – 4 Aug. 2005
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Print length208 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherVintage
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Publication date4 Aug. 2005
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Dimensions12.9 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm
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ISBN-100099437627
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ISBN-13978-0099437628
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Product details
- Publisher : Vintage (4 Aug. 2005)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 208 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0099437627
- ISBN-13 : 978-0099437628
- Dimensions : 12.9 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm
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Best Sellers Rank:
158,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 322 in Child Discipline (Books)
- 439 in Family & Social Groups
- 449 in Baby Development
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1000 kilometres away from baby whisperer books, and one every petrified parent-to-be should read. -- Sinead Gleeson ― 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 -- 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
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
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The Sunday Times and Irish Top Ten Bestselling book about motherhood
About the Author
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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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 August 2015
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This might just not be compatible with my sense of humour, but I didn't find it funny, as is was advertised. It's arranged as a series of short essays/articles all related to experiences of being a mother but I found that many of them were quite 'down' in tone - I often felt rather blue after reading them and certainly wouldn't recommend it to cheer anyone up. I found it quite bleak.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2016
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Disappointing after reading The Green Road. The narrative lacked emotion, which was strange considering it was about motherhood. I think the author was trying too much to be clever and appeared to be simply using the experience to provide easy material for her book.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2017
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WEll written, insightful, subjective account of motherhood in the early stages.Often funny always tender and delightfully fresh!
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 January 2020
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Funny, frank and honest. A great page turner.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 September 2017
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Still the best, most poignant and blessedly cynical book on new babies and motherhood.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2018
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Really enjoyed reading, laugh out loud.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 March 2014
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Rambling guff really, no insight, not even any funny stories, just the inane ramblings of a new mother that gets nowhere slowly.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2015
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So true to life! I thoroughly enjoyed it and it certainly brought back memories!