Helen Jukes

When Helen Jukes falls pregnant, she does what anyone else would do, searching for information to help make sense of the changes underway inside her. But as the months pass and her body becomes increasingly strange, the pregnancy guides seem insufficient; even the advice of her friends, passionate proponents of one birthing approach or another, feels oppressive. So she widens...

This book has found a special place in my heart. It’s as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it - HELEN MACDONALD, author of H IS FOR HAWK Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, which moved and delighted me more than a book about insects...