Birth Notes: A Memoir of Trauma, Motherhood and Recovery - Tapa blanda

Cornwell, Jessica

 
9780349014272: Birth Notes: A Memoir of Trauma, Motherhood and Recovery
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ISBN 10: 0349014272 ISBN 13: 9780349014272
Editorial: Virago, 2023

Sinopsis

'When a woman gives birth, she may, unwittingly, remember violent things. Ugly things. Unspoken things.'

After her twins were born, Jessica Cornwell stopped feeling. Plagued by memories of a traumatic birth, wrestling with ongoing physical pain and the brutal demands of caring for two tiny babies, she struggled to experience joy and love. Instead, she was consumed by fear and haunted by recurrent thoughts of blood and danger.

It was only when she received a diagnosis of post-partum PTSD and began therapy that Jessica was able to confront the secrets in her past. As she began to understand how her experience of birth had triggered her traumatic memories of sexual assault, she was finally able to integrate those memories into her identity as a mother and a survivor - and begin to heal.

'A redemptive tale of the power and wisdom of women's bodies' Leah Hazard

'This book undid me... and filled me with hope' Elinor Cleghorn

'Magnificent... a work of truth, understanding, scholarship and hope' Susie Orbach

'An astonishing memoir... about the intersection between birth trauma and sexual trauma, medical misogyny' Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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Acerca del autor

Jessica Cornwell is a writer living in Somerset. Born in California, she studied at Stanford and the Institute of Theatre in Barcelona before moving to London to work in film. Her first novel, The Serpent Papers, was published in 2015 to great acclaim. In 2018 she became the mother to twin boys. Birth Notes is her first work of non-fiction.

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When a woman gives birth, she may, unwittingly, remember violent things. Ugly things. Unspoken things.


After her twins were born, Jessica Cornwell stopped feeling. Plagued by memories of a traumatic birth, wrestling with ongoing physical pain and the brutal demands of caring for two tiny babies, she struggled to experience joy and love. Instead, she was consumed by fear and haunted by recurrent thoughts of blood and danger.


It was only when she received a diagnosis of post-partum PTSD and began therapy that Jessica was able to confront the secrets in her past. As she began to understand how her experience of birth had triggered her traumatic memories of sexual assault, she was finally able to integrate those memories into her identity as a mother and a survivor - and begin to heal.

'An astonishing memoir about the intersection between birth trauma and sexual trauma. Hugely important, courageous, and beautifully written' Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, author of The Tyranny of Lost Things

'Shows the jagged, uncomfortable journey towards recovery that PTSD survivors undertake if they are to live in the present. So many women will feel less alone after reading this book' Katie Ward, author of Girl Reading

'Magnificent ... a work of truth, understanding, scholarship and hope' Susie Orbach, author of In Therapy

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Editorial
Virago
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0349014272
ISBN 13 
9780349014272
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
448
Contacto del fabricante
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Hachette Ireland
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780349014296: Birth Notes: A Memoir of Trauma, Motherhood and Recovery

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0349014299 ISBN 13:  9780349014296
Editorial: Virago Press Ltd, 2022
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