Now, as my due date approaches for my second child, I’m struck by the rise in complex, taboo-busting narratives of motherhood.
Then I saw more women writing about the emotional impact of new motherhood, from Liz Berry to Rivka Galchen – too many to list.
I’ve been reading luminous, moving accounts of motherhood by Sinéad Gleeson (Constellations) and Francesca Segal (Mother Ship).
I needed stories that spoke to the weirdness of pregnancy and childbirth, the violence of sleep-deprivation, the confusion of a ruptured identity.
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