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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A beautiful reminiscence on becoming a mother, as it is happening. A wonderful love letter to her child. Very funny, too! ( ) Goldsworthy's style is reminiscent of Helen Garner, who also has a great concern with family relationships. Beautifully written, acutely observed and with a nicely judged balance between tragedy and comedy, joy and grief. At first it appears to be about parenting, but actually it's about the whole cycle of life and death. no reviews | add a review
'You are fluid, composed of smoke or air, morphing between ectoplasm and skeleton. It is a dance, a cosmic strip show- a flash of spine, and then a rib cage, clean as a fish. Who is laying these bones down, one by one? Is it me who is making you, or are you making yourself?' When Anna Goldsworthy, pianist and perfectionist, falls pregnant with her first child, her excitement is tempered by the daunting journey ahead. In Welcome to Your New Life, she shares the dizzying wonder and crippling anxiety that come with creating new life. Should she indulge her craving for sausage after sixteen years of not eating meat? Will her birth plan involve Enya or hypnosis, or neither? And just how worried should she be about her baby falling into a composting toilet? This captivating memoir combines warmth and humour to reveal the love that binds families together. Welcome to Your New Lifeevokes the shock of plunging into a life-changing adventure and the kicking required to return to the surface. 'A keen-eyed, funny, tender, wonderful book.' Chloe Hooper'This book does what great literature should- it tries to get a grip on life - the making of it, the living-and-loving it, the leaving it. Goldsworthy's writing is so beautiful, so laser-acute and funny and moving that you feel you are living more vividly. Welcome to Your New Lifeseems essential to me now. I laughed and I cried and I absolutely loved it.' Anna Funder No library descriptions found. |
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