Mother Animal : A Memoir of Motherhood and Wildness

*From the author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings comes a beautiful and unexpected memoir of motherhood and wildness -�`ASTONISHING'�(Sunday Times)___�`Magnificent, utterly refreshing'�LUCY JONES, author of Matrescence��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.��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.��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___�`Joyful and expansive'�Guardian�`Astounding . . . Read it to feel the slow detonation of mind-blowing understanding.' Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters�`Blows societal ideas about parenthood wide open.'�Marchelle Farrell, author of�Uprooting�`Honest and unflinching'�Stylist�`A book to devour.'�Joanna Wolfarth author of Milk