No One Talks About This Stuff (eBook, ePUB)

Twenty-Two Stories of Almost Parenthood
Redaktion: Brown, Kat

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Will allow you to find the peace, the rage, the acceptance, the anger, the love, the hatred, the joy and the connection that we all need to be allowed to feel' Pippa Vosper, author of Beyond Grief

No One Talks About This Stuff is a support group for almost-parents: it is a place to share journeys of loss and limbo, to confront social pressure and to find courage in the darkness of tragedies which happen every day yet are brushed under the carpet.

So, we hear from a stepmother who wrestles with infertility. A husband and wife each tell their experience of losing their baby. A lesbian comes of age at a time when gay people rarely become parents. A father finds loss to be his unlikely superpower. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder impacts a person's choices about having a family. A black woman unpacks ancestral shame while finding renewed purpose. And each person shares how they lived through it.

This captivatingly beautiful, profound and honest anthology opens a much-needed conversation about society, family and honouring the missing children we will never forget.

'Each generously shared experience powerfully validates and chips away at shame, as it speaks the truth of hoping, waiting, losing, loving and questioning' Anna Mathur, bestselling author of Know Your Worth

'The voices of the contributors are necessarily varied, but they are unified by fascinating and moving insights' Julia Bueno, author of The Brink of Being

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Unbound
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800182882
• Artikelnr.: 68866275

Autorenporträt

Kat Brown is a freelance journalist and commentator whose work, covering arts and entertainment as well as her experience with infertility and adult ADHD diagnosis, has appeared across national print and broadcast. She has published two books within one month of each other (which is very ADHD), No One Talks About This Stuff (ed.) and It’s Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult. She loves horse riding, tarot, and quizzes, and captained The Jillies on BBC Two’s Only Connect – arguably the greatest quiz show in existence. Kat lives in south London with her husband, their dog, and two appalling cats.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - xi
Disenfranchised Grief
The Story Which Does Not Have an End by Alice Jolly - 3
Pronatalism and Me: Waking up from the Trance of Motherhood by Jody Day -
14
A ‘Nearly Life’ by Rosie Wilby - 24
The Unspoken Trauma of Almost-Motherhood by Noni Martins - 29
Small, Soft, Grey Pig by Laura Barton - 38
Society
A Historical Perspective on Women Without Children by Emma Duval - 47
The Silence of Shame by Yvonne John - 57
Grief is Not a Competition by Alice Rose - 71
‘Other People’ Problems by Gemma Stone - 79
Choice
Elodie by Hilary Freeman - 89
Flashbacks and Tricycles: Chosen Childlessness and Trauma Disorders
by Quinn Clark - 102
Decisions by Sophia Money-Coutts - 117
‘Happy Ending’ by Seetal Savla - 124
Parenting
Self-portrait, Pregnant by Miranda Ward - 137
The Baby Loss Diaries by Nana-Adwoa Mbeutcha - 153
Loss as a Superpower by Tom Wateracre - 173
The Baby Loss Diaries by Donald Mbeutcha - 181
Living
Eshet Chayil by Sarah Lewis - 197
Work in Progress by Rageshri Dhairyawan - 210
Notes from Here by Kat Brown - 220
Imogen and Delilah by Natalie Sutherland - 235
Hard Glad by Stella Duffy - 247
Resources - 257
Acknowledgements - 263
Supporters - 266