Book description
Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had
two babies: a girl and a boy.
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. Anne
Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has
published two collections of stories, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies
, and five novels, including The Gathering
, which was the Irish Novel of the Year, and won the Irish Fiction Award
and the 2007 Man Booker Prize.
