Expecting

The Inner Life of Pregnancy

By: Chitra Ramaswamy

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Paperback | 1 May 2017

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192 Pages

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1.8 x 12.9 x 19.9

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A physical, emotional, philosophical and artistic odyssey through pregnancy.

When Chitra Ramaswamy discovered she was pregnant, she longed for a book that went above and beyond a manual. A book that did more than simply describe what was happening in her growing body day by day, week by week and month by month. A book that got to the heart of the bewildering, thrilling and strange experience that is pregnancy.

Expecting takes the reader on an intimate physical and philosophical journey across the nine months of pregnancy and birth, paying tribute to writers, artists, places and individual histories along the way.

About the Author

Chitra Ramaswamy is an award-winning journalist. She cut her teeth at the Big Issue before moving to the Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday, where she became a leading columnist, book reviewer, interviewer and feature writer. Now freelance, Chitra writes for the Guardian, The Times, Lonely Planet Traveller and a number of other publications. She lives in Edinburgh with her partner, son and rescue dog. Expecting is her first book.

Industry Reviews

`Immediately, poignantly, gripping...magnificent.' -- Zoe Williams * Guardian *
`Drawing on Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag and Gustave Courbet's dramatic The Origin of the World, Chitra explores the heightened sense of her pregnant body. All of which rings with authenticity right up to the agony of birth, the relief of a Caesarean and the bliss of the baby's first cry.' * Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald *
'Beautifully conceived in a nine-chapter structure pregnant with symbolic meaning, it's a universal book that should appeal to anyone interested in the human condition, not just those who are expecting.' * SBS Online *

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