Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles and becoming acquainted with the long reaches of the night. Everyone, from parents to the mildly curious, can delight in Enrights funny, eloquent and unsentimental account of having babies.

Selected from the bookMaking Babiesby Anne Enright

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Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published two collection of stories, collected asYesterdays Weather, one book of non-fiction,Making Babies, and five novels, includingThe Gathering, which was the Irish Novel of the Year, and won the Irish Fiction Award and the 2007 Man Booker Prize, andThe Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She is the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.