Vital and heartwrenchingly intimate Leah HazardUrgent, fascinating and thoughtprovoking Julia BuenoThoughtfully researched and beautifully written Pippa VosperAfter losing four pregnancies with no obvious cause, Jennie Agg set out to understand why miscarriage remains such a profoundly misunderstood, underresearched and underacknowledged experience.Partmemoir, partscientific investigation, Life, Almost documents Aggs 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 cant be prevented when half of all miscarriages are of perfectly healthy embryos? Why is it normal not to tell anyone youre pregnant for the first three months? Why dont we know why labour starts? Drawing on pioneering research and interviews with worldleading experts, Life, Almost is a groundbreaking 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.

Binding: Hardback;320 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BGTA; Weight: 638 g; Dimensions: 164 x 242 x 33

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