Small: On Motherhoods
'A beautiful perfect book' PHILIPPA PERRY
$41.85
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2022
Summary
“Original, important, moving, witty and exquisitely-written. WHAT a feat.” - BERNARDINE EVARISTO
“Incredible… beautiful and funny and humane.” - EMILIE PINE
“Pristine poetry and prose.” - KATHERINE MAY, AUTHOR OF WINTERING
“Babies who are this small, he says, have a good chance of survival. Small is not good for babies. It is not whimsical or cute or the cause of admiration. It is the first time it occurs to us that they might not survive. Babies die from smallness.”
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781914240058 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1914240057 |
| Author: | Claire Lynch |
| Publisher: | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | BRAZEN |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 13 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 28mm |
About The Author
Claire Lynch
Claire works as a university lecturer and is author of two academic books and numerous scholarly articles and chapters. Small is her first book for a general audience.
Claire’s Four Thought talk ‘The Other Mother’ was first broadcast on BBC Radio Four this year and her first piece of narrative non-fiction took second place in the Spread the Word Life Writing Prize in 2017.
She was a shortlisted writer on the Penguin Random House WriteNow scheme in 2018, and long-listed for the Hinterland non-fiction Prize in 2019. In 2020, her writing was shortlisted for the London Library Emerging Writer’s Programme and the Arvon Short Story competition.
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