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*A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR*
*Longlisted for the 2024 Women''s Prize for Non-Fiction*


''The best book I''ve ever read about motherhood'' Jude Rogers, Observer
''I kept scribbling in the margins: ''We need to know this stuff!'''' Joanna Pocock, Spectator

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body

During pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.

There is no other time in a human''s life course that entails such dramatic change-other than adolescence. And yet this life-altering transition has been sorely neglected by science, medicine and philosophy. Its seismic effects go largely unrepresented across literature and the arts. Speaking about motherhood as anything other than a pastel-hued dream remains, for the most part, taboo.

Matrescence

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 1 June 2024
      ISBN-13 9781802061307
      978-1802061307
      ISBN-10 1802061304
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      Non Fiction Politics, Philosophy & Society Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      *A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR*
      *Longlisted for the 2024 Women''s Prize for Non-Fiction*


      ''The best book I''ve ever read about motherhood'' Jude Rogers, Observer
      ''I kept scribbling in the margins: ''We need to know this stuff!'''' Joanna Pocock, Spectator

      A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body

      During pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.

      There is no other time in a human''s life course that entails such dramatic change-other than adolescence. And yet this life-altering transition has been sorely neglected by science, medicine and philosophy. Its seismic effects go largely unrepresented across literature and the arts. Speaking about motherhood as anything other than a pastel-hued dream remains, for the most part, taboo.

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