The Sunday Times and Irish Top Ten bestseller book about motherhood.

Informationen zum Autor 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, The Forgotten Waltz , which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road , which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Her most recent novel, The Wren, The Wren , was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction, and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. Klappentext Anne Enright! one of Ireland's most remarkable writers! has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. 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. Zusammenfassung Presents a funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, the author has the rush of good news - full of the mess, the glory, and the raw shock of it all. She also bears a visceral and dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood.

Vorwort
The Sunday Times and Irish Top Ten bestseller book about motherhood.

Klappentext

Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. 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.

Zusammenfassung
Presents a funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, the author has the rush of good news - full of the mess, the glory, and the raw shock of it all. She also bears a visceral and dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood.