Making Babies

Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy.Making Babies, is the intimate, engaging, and very funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, it has the rush of good news - full of the mess, the glory, and the raw shock of it all. An antidote to the high-minded, polemical 'How-to' baby manuals,Making Babiesalso bears a visceral and dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood. Anne Enright wrote the truth of it as it happened, because, for these months and years, it is impossible for a woman to lie.

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.

The Sunday Times and Irish Top Ten bestseller book about motherhood.