Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl & a boy. Her new book, Making Babies, is the intimate, engaging, & 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, & the raw shock of it all. An antidote to the high-minded, polemical ' How-to' baby manuals, Making Babies also bears a visceral & dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood. Anne Enright wrote the truth of it as it happened, because, for these months & years, it is impossible for a woman to lie.