Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Jennie Agg
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint: Torva
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 3.50cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.517kg
ISBN: 9781911709046
ISBN 10: 1911709046
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 09 February 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
'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 *
Author Information
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.
