<p><b>*A <i>New Statesman </i>and <i>Daily Mail </i>BOOK OF THE YEAR*<br>*Longlisted for the 2024 Women''s Prize for Non-Fiction*<br><br></b><br><b>''The best book I''ve ever read about motherhood'' Jude Rogers, <i>Observer</i></b><br><b>''I kept scribbling in the margins: ''We need to know this stuff!'''' Joanna Pocock, <i>Spectator<br></i></b><b><br>A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body<br></b><br>During pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.<br><br>There is no other time in a human''s life course that entails such dramatic change-other than adolescence. And yet this life-altering transition has been sorely neglected by science, medicine and philosophy. Its seismic effects go largely unrepresented across literature and the arts. Speaking about motherhood as anything other than a pastel-hued dream remains, for the most part, taboo.