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Welcome to Your New Life

by Anna Goldsworthy
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When classical pianist Anna Goldsworthy falls pregnant with her first child, she is both excited and anxious about what lies ahead. Should she indulge her craving for sausage after sixteen years without 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?
This delightful memoir reveals the love that binds families together. Welcome to Your New Life captures the shock of leaving behind the life that you know and the thrill of starting the great adventure that is parenthood.
'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. Welcome to Your New Life seems essential to me now. I laughed and I cried and I absolutely loved it.' —Anna Funder
'Warm, funny and candid.' —Books+Publishing
'A keen-eyed, funny, tender, wonderful book.' —Chloe Hooper
' ... there are few books that have made me howl with laughter as this one has ... she has an exquisite ability to recast the banal into another sphere ... a deliciously subversive read.' —Melbourne Review

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  • Release date

    March 5, 2014

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781922231468

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781922231468
      • File size: 524 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Books+Publishing

      February 5, 2013

      Having recently read Anna Goldsworthy’s celebrated first memoir Piano Lessons, I jumped at the chance to review her second, given how much her honest authorial voice and eloquent turn of phrase had impressed me. Welcome to Your New Life is written to Goldsworthy’s son and joins a growing number of motherhood and parenting memoirs. While Goldsworthy relates some fairly common experiences as part of her induction into the world of pregnancy, birth and infant-raising (birth plans, driving home with baby, the shock when it hits home, breastfeeding problems, sleeplessness, beginning childcare), this book’s value lies in its telling, and in Goldsworthy’s own quirky personality. Sudden anxiety in new parents is nothing new but Goldsworthy fearlessly recounts her obsessions. The section on her irrational fear of losing her non-mobile newborn down a composting toilet is a gem. It’s warm, funny and candid. She shares her love of language with her infant son and beautifully captures the bond between parent and child. I love the way Goldsworthy uses words and felt honoured to witness the private magic and joy as her son changed her world. (Read the interview here.)

      Joanne Shiells is an editor, former bookseller and parent of two

Formats

  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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Languages

  • English

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