Small

On motherhoods

Claire Lynch

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BRAZEN
26 October 2021

Autobiography: literary; Infertility & fertilization; Pregnancy, birth & baby care

"""Original, important, moving, witty and exquisitely-written. WHAT a feat."" - BERNARDINE EVARISTO

""Incredible... beautiful and funny and humane."" - EMILIE PINE

""Pristine poetry and prose."" KATHERINE MAY, AUTHOR OF WINTERING

""I've read a beautiful perfect book. If you are straight or gay, read it."" PHILIPPA PERRY

""Babies who are this small, he says, have a good chance of survival. Small is not good for babies. It is not whimsical or cute or the cause of admiration. It is the first time it occurs to us that they might not survive. Babies die from smallness.""

Claire Lynch knew that having children with her wife would be complicated but she could never have anticipated the extent to which her life would be redrawn by the process.

This dazzling debut begins with the smallest of life's substances, the microscopic cells subdividing in a petri dish in a fertility treatment centre. She moves through her story in incremental yet ever growing steps, from the fingernail-sized pregnancy test result screen which bears two affirmative lines to the premature arrival of her children who have to wear scale-model oxygen masks in their life-saving incubators. Devastatingly poignant and profoundly observant - and funny against the odds - Claire considers whether it is our smallness that makes our lives so big."

By: Claire Lynch
Imprint: BRAZEN
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781914240010
ISBN 10: 1914240014
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 26 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Claire works as a university lecturer and is author of two academic books and numerous scholarly articles and chapters. Small is her first book for a general audience. Claire's Four Thought talk 'The Other Mother' was first broadcast on BBC Radio Four this year and her first piece of narrative non-fiction took second place in the Spread the Word Life Writing Prize in 2017. She was a shortlisted writer on the Penguin Random House WriteNow scheme in 2018, and long-listed for the Hinterland non-fiction Prize in 2019. In 2020, her writing was shortlisted for the London Library Emerging Writer's Programme and the Arvon Short Story competition.