Matrescence\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Helen Jukes becomes pregnant, the manuals she reaches for feel hollow; the well-meaning advice of friends oddly suffocating. With her body transforming, she’s left with urgent, unanswered questions.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
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So she looks elsewhere. Beyond humans, and into the overlooked worlds of polar bears, bonobos, burying beetles and a host of other creatures whose ways of mothering look very different to our own.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
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What she finds is both unsettling and electric: an expansive reimagining of care, instinct and what it might mean to be a mother – animal and human – today<\/p>\n
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‘Joyful and expansive’<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Astounding . . . Read it to feel the slow detonation of mind-blowing understanding.’<\/strong> Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters<\/em><\/p>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Blows societal ideas about parenthood wide open.’<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>Marchelle Farrell, author of\u00c2\u00a0Uprooting<\/em><\/p>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Honest and unflinching’<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Stylist<\/em><\/p>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘A book to devour.’\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Joanna Wolfarth author of Milk<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Offers a startling new vision of motherhood: wild, intimate, diverse; as contested and extraordinary as the world in which we live and the animals with which we share it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[98],"product_tag":[259,26921,99],"class_list":["post-107363","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-nat-history-popular-science","product_tag-memoirs","product_tag-nature-the-natural-world-general-interest","product_tag-popular-science","pa_book_author-jukes-helen","pa_cover-hardback","pa_dewey-306-8743092-edition23","pa_imprint-elliott-thompson","pa_language-english","pa_pages-8406","pa_publisher-elliott-thompson","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\nMother animal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"*From the author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings comes a beautiful and unexpected memoir of motherhood and wildness -\u00c2\u00a0'ASTONISHING'\u00c2\u00a0(Sunday Times)___\u00c2\u00a0'Magnificent, utterly refreshing'\u00c2\u00a0LUCY JONES, author of Matrescence\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0When Helen Jukes becomes pregnant, the manuals she reaches for feel hollow; the well-meaning advice of friends oddly suffocating. 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