{"product_id":"9781863955935","title":"Welcome to Your New Life","description":"Author: Goldsworthy, Anna\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781863955935\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Black Inc\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 20 Mar 2013\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis captivating memoir combines warmth and humour to reveal the love that binds families together. \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Your New Life\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the shock of plunging into a life-changing adventure and the kicking required to return to the surface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'You are fluid, composed of smoke or air, morphing between ectoplasm and skeleton. It is a dance, a cosmic strip show: a flash of spine, and then a rib cage, clean as a fish. Who is laying these bones down, one by one? Is it me who is making you, or are you making yourself?'\u003cbr\u003e When Anna Goldsworthy, pianist and perfectionist, falls pregnant with her first child, her excitement is tempered by the daunting journey ahead. In \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Your New Life\u003c\/i\u003e, she shares the dizzying wonder and crippling anxiety that come with creating new life. Should she indulge her craving for sausage after sixteen years of not eating meat? Will her birth plan involve Enya or hypnosis, or neither? And just how worried should she be about her baby falling into a composting toilet?\u003cbr\u003e This captivating memoir combines warmth and humour to reveal the love that binds families together. \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Your New Life\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the shock of plunging into a life-changing adventure and the kicking required to return to the surface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A keen-eyed, funny, tender, wonderful book.' \u003cb\u003eChloe Hooper\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'This book does what great literature should: it tries to get a grip on life - the making of it, the living-and-loving it, the leaving it. Goldsworthy's writing is so beautiful, so laser-acute and funny and moving that you feel you are living more vividly. \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Your New Life\u003c\/i\u003e seems essential to me now. I laughed and I cried and I absolutely loved it.' \u003cb\u003eAnna Funder\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48145016488094,"sku":"UBD-9781863955935","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781863955935.jpg?v=1786878477","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781863955935","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}