{"product_id":"9781529097948-milk","title":"Milk","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn Motherhood and Madness\u003cbr\u003eFrom a brilliant new talent, \u003ci\u003eMilk \u003c\/i\u003eis an astonishingly evocative, intimate and moving memoir charting one woman’s experience of pregnancy and motherhood in modern Ireland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Sublime' - Donal Ryan, author of \u003ci\u003eStrange Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Here is a writer who matters' - \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A book about the raw, riotous, brutally beautiful act of being alive.' - Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of \u003ci\u003eThin Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eMilk \u003c\/i\u003eis a raw, unvarnished journey down the mothering rabbit hole' – \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI have become the common myth. Mother. The sleepy hum of early memories. The smell of shampoo, of Olay, of lavender. The feeling of safety. The absence of fear.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen poet Alice Kinsella becomes a mother, she finds herself utterly lost. As she searches for answers to the question of her new identity, she considers the mothers and writers who came before her. In her inimitable poetic style, Kinsella takes pregnancy and the first nine months of motherhood and forms from them a broken prism through which to view both a woman’s place in the world, and her child’s in the future we’re creating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A radiant, meditative, truly powerful and beautiful book’ – Joseph O’Connor, author of \u003ci\u003eStar of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Spellbinding’ – Rick O’Shea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40737433157729,"sku":"9781529097948","price":13.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27002824.jpg?v=1721419430","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529097948-milk","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}