Birth Notes

''I SAVOURED EVERY WORD'' ABI DAR¿

A REDEMPTIVE TALE OF THE POWER AND WISOM OF WOMEN''S BODIES'' LEAH HAZARD

''MAGNIFICENT: A WORK OF TRUTH'' SUSIE ORBACH

''FILLED ME WITH HOPE'' DR ELINOR CLEGHORN

''SO MANY WOMEN WILL FEEL LESS ALONE AFTER READING THIS BOOK'' KATIE WARD

Following the birth of her first children, twin boys, Jessica Cornwell collapsed in a fever. Rushed back to hospital, she was initially dismissed, before a life-threatening infection was diagnosed. Alone, recovering, watching her body bruise and break, a curious thing happened: she stopped feeling.

At home, the numbness remained. Nursing her boys through jaundice, learning to breastfeed, slowly re-emerging into a world where other mothers seemed to cope, Jessica hid her secret - she felt no love, only fear. Worse, vivid memories began to surface, of moments in her past she thought buried.

Jessica began to name, one by one, the shado