The Long Answer

The Long Answer

Hardback (21 Jun 2022)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A woman considers pregnancy, motherhood, and the nature of female relationships in this profound and provocative novel.

Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time, Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second child. As this loss strains their bond and complications with Anna's own pregnancy emerge, her tenuous steps towards motherhood are shadowed and illuminated by the women she meets along the way, whose stories of the children they have had, or longed for, or lost, crowd in.
 
The Long Answer is a stunning novel of secrets kept, and secrets shared. Deeply empathetic and hugely absorbing, it unravels the intimate dynamics of female friendship, sisterhood, motherhood and grief, and the ways that women are bound together and pulled apart by their shared and contrasting experiences of pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage, and infertility.

Book information

ISBN: 9780593418130
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint: Riverhead Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.6
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20211123
Language: English
Number of pages: 291
Weight: 482g
Height: 236mm
Width: 161mm
Spine width: 26mm