Cradle and All

Women Writers on Pregnancy and Birth

“Having a child is one of the most significant and profoundly mysterious events in a human life, and perhaps no one is better qualified to describe the joys and pains of motherhood than women writers. By transforming experience into art, they give not opinions or advice, but personal versions of truth. This moving anthology brings together over ninety individual responses to motherhood, from conception to nursing and beyond.”  from the Introduction