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Life, Almost

Miscarriage, misconceptions and a search for answers from the brink of motherhood

Jennie Agg

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English
Torva
09 March 2023
A powerful, personal reflection on miscarriage from an acclaimed health and science journalist, drawing on original interviews and ground-breaking research to offer fresh insight into this underacknowledged subject.

'Vital and heart-wrenchingly intimate' Leah Hazard 'Urgent, fascinating and thought-provoking' Julia Bueno 'Thoughtfully researched and beautifully written' Pippa Vosper

After losing four pregnancies with no obvious cause, Jennie Agg set out to understand why miscarriage remains such a profoundly misunderstood, under-researched and under-acknowledged experience.

Part-memoir, part-scientific investigation, Life, Almost documents Agg's path to motherhood and her search for answers. Tracing each tentative step of her fifth pregnancy - as her body becomes a creature she does not wish to spook - Agg dismantles the myths that we unquestioningly accept about our reproductive lives-

Why are we told miscarriage can't be prevented when half of all miscarriages are of perfectly healthy embryos?

Why is it normal not to tell anyone you're pregnant for the first three months?

Why don't we know why labour starts?

Drawing on pioneering research and interviews with world-leading experts, Life, Almost is a ground-breaking book that will change how you think about miscarriage, and a moving reflection on grief and love at the edge of life as we understand it.

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Imprint:   Torva
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 242mm,  Width: 162mm,  Spine: 35mm
Weight:   517g
ISBN:   9781911709046
ISBN 10:   1911709046
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jennie Agg is an acclaimed health and science journalist, whose work has appeared in the Guardian, the Times, the Mail, the Telegraph, Red, Grazia, Women's Health and elsewhere. She is the author of the award-winning blog The Uterus Monologues, through which she has charted her own experience of recurrent miscarriage as well as helping other women to share their stories of infertility and pregnancy loss.

Reviews for Life, Almost: Miscarriage, misconceptions and a search for answers from the brink of motherhood

'Jennie is one of my favourite writers on the topic of fertility - and beyond it. Her writing is compassionate, diligent, lyrical and deeply moving.' * </i>Natasha Lunn, author of <i>Conversations on Love * 'Tommy's believes this will be a hugely important read, both for those who have gone through miscarriage and for those trying to understand what their loved ones are going through. We hope anyone who reads this book will finish with the knowledge that they are not alone.' * Tommy's charity *


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