A powerful, personal reflection on miscarriage from an acclaimed health and science journalist, drawing on original interviews and ground-breaking research to offer fresh insight into this underacknowledged subject.'Vital and heart-wrenchingly intimate' Leah Hazard, author,
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began '
Urgent, fascinating and thought-provoking' Julia Bueno, author,
The Brink of Being: Talking About Miscarriage After losing four pregnancies with no obvious cause, Jennie Agg set out to understand why miscarriage remains such a profoundly misunderstood, under-researched and under-acknowledged experience. Part-memoir, part-scientific investigation,
Life, Almost documents Agg's path to motherhood and her search for answers. Tracing each tentative step of her fifth pregnancy - as her body becomes a creature she does not wish to spook - Agg dismantles the myths that we unquestioningly accept about our reproductive lives: ·
- Why are we told miscarriage can't be prevented when half of all miscarriages are of perfectly healthy embryos?
- Why is it normal not to tell anyone you're pregnant for the first three months? ·
- Why don't we know why labor starts?
Drawing on pioneering research and interviews with world-leading experts,
Life, Almost is a ground-breaking book that will change how you think about miscarriage, and a moving reflection on grief and love at the edge of life as we understand it.
