Matrescence

*A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR*
*Longlisted for the 2024 Women''s Prize for Non-Fiction*


''The best book I''ve ever read about motherhood'' Jude Rogers, Observer
''I kept scribbling in the margins: ''We need to know this stuff!'''' Joanna Pocock, Spectator

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body

During pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.

There is no other time in a human''s life course that entails such dramatic change-other than adolescence. And yet this life-altering transition has been sorely neglected by science, medicine and philosophy. Its seismic effects go largely unrepresented across literature and the arts. Speaking about motherhood as anything other than a pastel-hued dream remains, for the most part, taboo.