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Mother Animal

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An electrifying new vision of motherhood from the author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings - 'ASTONISHING' (Sunday Times)


When Helen Jukes falls pregnant, she does what anyone else would do. She searches for information to help make sense of the changes underway inside her. But as the months pass and her body becomes increasingly strange, the pregnancy guides seem insufficient; even the advice of her friends feels oppressive.


So she widens her frame of reference, looking beyond humans to ask what motherhood looks like in other species. Here she begins a process of wilder enquiry, in which stories of spiders, polar bears, bonobos and burying beetles (among others) begin to unsettle and expand her notion of what mothering is; what it could be.


A passionate, visceral and intimate account of a body changed, Mother Animal combines personal memoir with fresh insights from evolutionary biology, zoology and toxicology to ask the big questions that lie at the heart of what it means to be alive – and a mother – today.

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‘Magnificent’ Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence


‘Joyful and expansive’ Guardian


‘Blows societal ideas about parenthood wide open.’ Marchelle Farrell, author of Uprooting


‘Extraordinary... Read it to feel a slow detonation of mind-blowing understanding.’ Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters


‘Honest and unflinching’ Stylist

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Authors:
Jukes, Helen
Year Published:
2025
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9781783968381
Number of Pages:
224
Publication Date:
27/02/2025
Publisher:
Elliott & Thompson Limited
Language:
English
Place of Publication:
London
Imprint:
Elliott & Thompson Limited
SKU:
9781783968381

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