- Title:
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After Birth (MP3)
- Written by:
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Elisa Albert
- Read by:
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Amy Rubinate
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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6 hours 7 minutes
- MP3 size:
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254 MB
- Published:
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December 28 2016
- Available Date:
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December 28 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult - Explicit
- ISBN:
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9781489373106
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
'Elisa Albert’s brilliant new novel ... It’s obscene, reckless, vicious, hilarious and above all real ...'
The New York Times Book Review
A fierce new novel,in which childbirth and new motherhood are as high stakes a proving ground as any combat zone
A year has passed since Ari gave birth and still she can't locate herself in her altered universe. Sleep-deprived, lonely and unprepared, she struggles through the strange, disjointed rhythms of her days and nights. Her own mother long dead and her girlhood friendships faded, she is a woman in need.
When Mina – older, alone, pregnant – moves to town, Ari sees hope of a comrade-in-arms. Perhaps the hostile terrain could be more easily navigable together.
With purifying anger and outrageous humour, Elisa Albert unleashes on a culture that turns its new mothers into exiles, and expects them to act like natives. And as she defines the raw experience of motherhood, Albert offers a hilarious and devastatingly honest examination of how we become the women we are.
'Albert has given us a portrait of modern motherhood that will provide insight for some and provoke others. For others still, in its quieter moments, as it reaches for an honest way to talk about birth, it will be like that big old bell ringing in them.'
The Guardian