Making Babies
Making Babies
paperback
Published:
4 August, 2005
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'An unadulterated delight...suffused with a sense of love and very, very funny' Maggie O'Farrell
It's 2004 and 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.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099437628 |
| ISBN10 | 0099437627 |
| Number Of Pages | 208 |
| Item Weight | 151 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 198 x 14 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
1000 kilometres away from baby whisperer books, and one every petrified parent-to-be should read. * Image *
1000 kilometres away from baby whisperer books, and one every petrified parent-to-be should read. * Image *
Fizzingly entertaining. Reading it is like having a conversation with your funniest friend. Enright has pulled off that rarest of tricks: writing brilliantly about happiness * Sunday Times *
Making Babies is an absolute joy, the perfect, intelligent antidote to poisonous books on the subject
An unadulterated delight...suffused with a sense of love and very, very funny * Daily Telegraph *
Gasp-making, jaw-dropping and eloquently astounding * Irish Indepedent *
Enright is such an original and witty writer. Her tone is utterly unsentimental and kept reducing me to tears * Zoe Heller *
Anne Enright is an eloquent writer...dazzlingly funny
Making Babies is not just a good book, it's a good thing. It induces hope. It creates an appetite for life. It is also a very effective contraceptive * Ian Sansom *
A hopelessly vivid maker of sentence, of the sort you can't help reading aloud to whoever happens to be nearby... Ms. Enright's commentary on gender politics and babies, like a swimming pool illuminated by underwater lights, also casts an entrancingly strange glow * New York Times *
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Author's Bio
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other award include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.