Making Babies

the Sunday Times bestselling memoir of stumbling into motherhood

Anne Enright

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Vintage
03 March 2022

Sociology: family & relationships; Pregnancy, birth & baby care; Child care & upbringing

The Sunday Times and Irish Top Ten bestseller book about motherhood.

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.

By: Anne Enright
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 151g
ISBN: 9780099437628
ISBN 10: 0099437627
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 03 March 2022
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Making Babies: the Sunday Times bestselling memoir of stumbling into motherhood

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