Bonus post: Life, Almost

So, I've written this book...

I’ve been keeping a secret. Just over a year ago, I started writing a book. A book about everything that happened on the road to having a baby. A book about miscarriage. A book about how society treats miscarriage – or, more to the point, doesn’t treat miscarriage.

I’m beyond excited (and, naturally, SICK with nerves) to finally be able to tell you about it.

Here it is: Life, Almost: Miscarriage, misconceptions, and a search for answers from the brink of motherhood. It’s being published on February 9th 2023 by Transworld.  

It’s available to pre-order now (from Amazon, Waterstones, Bookshop.org, WH Smith – and possibly some others I haven’t found yet).

I plan on telling you lots more about it, as publication approaches. But for now, here is a little snippet from my original pitch to publishers:

‘Part memoir, part scientific investigation, Life, Almost is a book that will change the way you think about miscarriage. It begins as I find out I am pregnant for the fifth time, after four miscarriages and four years of trying for a baby… It is a book in search of answers to bigger questions – and where none can be found, it will demand to know why we can’t do better… Now that we’re talking about miscarriage, we should also be asking why we don’t know more about it: from why miscarriages happen in the first place and the lingering psychological effects, to who it is more likely to affect and how it can be prevented.’

If this sounds like your kind of thing, it would mean so much to me if you were able to pre-order it. (Whenever I see a book on a subject even vaguely connected to this stuff, I try to pre-order, because I see it as a small thing I can do to convince publishers that there is an appetite for this sort of thing, that it is not a ‘niche’ subject, by any means).

Anyway, thanks for bearing with me when this newsletter has taken a mysterious leave of absence. Now you know why!

The normal full-length newsletter, including some thoughts on pregnancy loss certificates and the recently published Women’s Health Strategy, will be in your in-boxes later in the week.