A New Yorker New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEARLonglisted for the 2024 Womens Prize for NonFictionThe best book Ive ever read about motherhood Jude Rogers ObserverI kept scribbling in the margins We need to know this stuff Joanna Pocock SpectatorA radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind brain and bodyDuring pregnancy childbirth and early motherhood women undergo a farreaching physiological psychological and social metamorphosis.There is no other time in a humans life course that entails such dramatic changeother than adolescence. And yet this lifealtering transition has been sorely neglected by science medicine and philosophy. Its seismic effects go largely unrepresented across literature and the arts.