When Maria turns twenty, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through his things, she finds a photo of herself when she was twelve years old. She has the same smile, but she is wearing the wrong clothes: she is the same, only different. This novel follows the lives of Maria and the girl in the picture.

What Are You Like

Literature & Fiction

Enright. Anne

Contemporary

Vintage

'A luscious read' Sunday Independent

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

PORTABLE VIRGIN, THE (RE-ISSUE)

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2007

Gathering

Vintage Books

Vintage Books USA

The Forgotten Waltz

Genre Fiction

The Green Road

Literary

The Wig My Father Wore

JONATHAN CAPE.

Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. Her new book, "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. Easily confiding and full of advice from the front line, the book contains sections on buggies ('All women with buggies look like they are on welfare'), second pregnancies ('No one gives a toss about your second pregnancy. Get on with it'), evolution ('Humans give birth in pain so that they can't run away, afterwards'), not to mention how to get trolleyed while breastfeeding ('There are good reasons not to feed a baby while drunk, not all of them aesthetic'). "Making Babies" is an antidote to the po-faced, polemical 'How-to' baby books, but it also bears a visceral and dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood. It is written from the heart of change: urgent, funny, passionate and wry. Anne Enright brings her entire self to this account of her life, as new life came out of it. She wrote it down as it happened, because, for these months and years, it is impossible for a woman to lie.

Making Babies : Stumbling into Motherhood

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Vintage, UK

The Gathering

Chatto Bodley Head & Cape

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