Product Description

Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. Her new book, "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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52411 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

From the Publisher
The Sunday Times and Irish Top Ten Bestselling book about motherhood

About the Author
Anne Enright was born in Dublin and now lives and works in County Wicklow. She is the author of a collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, which won the Rooney Prize, and three novels, The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like? which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and won the Encore Award, and The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch.

Customer Reviews

Just read it!
The best, honestly the *best* book on motherhood and pregnancy I've ever read. It's a remarkable, lucid account of what it is to be 'taken over' by this inexcorable state of mind and body, and the unthought-of pleasures and new anxieties that accompany a first child. It's certainly not a practical guide to being pregnant and having a child (there seems to be a misunderstanding about this, which accounts for the two negative reviews - do people not read blurbs or flick through a book before buying it? Odd) but I'd still recommend it to anyone pregnant for the first time, or finding themselves with a new baby and unprepared for the emotional turmoil that this brings.

Very true
I found this book very drily funny and very true to my own experiences. I would recommend it to any educated woman thinking of swapping a successful career for the "domestic bliss" of motherhood to read this for an honest preview of their first year.

An author I could really relate to
This is the best book Ive read about pregnancy and motherhood. I liked the "dispatches from the front line" style, giving the sense of how disjointed life becomes when you have a new baby. I was really able to relate to the author and often found myself nodding in agreement with her sentiments. I often feel like I am inhabited by a little stranger, an alien. I found this book to be a great antidote to both the pink and fluffy "mother hood is amazing" and to the "warts and bodily fluids" humourous books out there. I felt that her writing was beautiful, sparse and clear, yet with warm humour. Some images were so vivid. I would reccomend this book to you if you have had enough of the Pink and Fluffy pregnancy books, or, if like me, you arent madly maternal. Its definetly a book I'll read and enjoy again