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"From the author of a Guardian memoir of the year 2022 ""A cartoon fried egg. An eye. The tiniest of black holes. It needed a professional eye to be seen, but once pointed out it was undeniable. My own little Big Bang. The beginning of it all."" When Chitra Ramaswamy discovered she was pregnant for the first time, she longed to read something that went above and beyond a biology book or prescriptive manual; something that, instead, got to the heart of the overwhelming, thrilling, and often misrepresented experience she was embarking on.She couldn't find one. So, she wrote Expecting. Expecting is a creative memoir. Through nine chapters exploring the nine months of gestation and birth, Ramaswamy takes the reader on a physical, intellectual, emotional, literary, and philosophical journey through the landscape of pregnancy. Childbearing and childbirth are experiences defined both by the measurable monthly changes to one's life and body, and by those immeasurable, often obscured and neglected changes in perspective that are accessed through metaphor, art, and emotion. Ramaswamy bears witness to the experience of pregnancy in an intimate yet expansive book of lyrical essays, paying tribute to this most extraordinary and ordinary of experiences."

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"""Immediately, poignantly, gripping, the most unlikely detective story, when the whole universe knows the ending. Laconic and magnificent."" Guardian""Writing of great insight, humour and emotional intelligence. "" The Times""Nourished by a rich seam of artistic and literary consciousness ... This experience of one woman's pregnancy ... becomes the story of everyone."" Kirsty Gunn, Guardian""The point of literature is that we can understand what we can never experience ... I found this poetic and polemical book moving and fascinating."" ScotsmanFor Homelands: ""Homelands is beautiful in unusual and wonderful ways, beyond the grace and magic when its prose rises almost to poetry."" Rebecca Solnit""Remarkable"" The Times ""Achingly beautiful"" Guardian"

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Chitra Ramaswamy is an award-winning author and journalist. Her debut book won the Best First Book of the Year prize in Scotland's National Book Awards and was nominated for the Polari Prize for books by LGBTQ+ writers. Her most recent book,Homelands: The History of a Friendship, won Scotland's Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was included inThe Guardian's top memoirs and biographies of 2022. She has contributed essays toAntlers of Water,Nasty Women, The Freedom Papers, The Bi:ble,andMessage From The Skiesand recently completed a commission from the Alasdair Gray Archive. She writes forThe Guardian, is the restaurant critic forThe TimesScotland, and broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she is from London and lives in Edinburgh with her partner, two children, and rescue dog.

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