- Published: 1 June 2023
- ISBN: 9780141996714
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Matrescence
On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood
- Published: 1 June 2023
- ISBN: 9780141996714
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
I was challenged, comforted, educated, nourished, soothed and reassured by this book. Almost three years into my own matrescence, this book is the single most powerful, life-changing, heartachingly healing thing I have been given. For it is, first and foremost, a gift. To have journeyed , and still be journeying, through this wild, raw, many coloured land of such unknowns, and to share that journey-the pain and the joy; the grief and love; the anxiety and the hope - in this way is nothing short of grace. This book is the kind of book we must ensure every one of us reads; every single person sharing this earth side by side with our kin of every form. For, as Lucy shows us so tenderly and luminously; we are more finely interwoven than we've been led to believe; more animal than we might ordinarily take ourselves for. Certain experiences change us, bring us closer to the blood and shit and milk and bone. Matrescence holds the power to carry us back to ourselves, to the rituals and community from which we came; the caregivers we all hold the seed within us to become- and Lucy Jones is the person who should have written it. I am so glad she did . She has given us mammals such a gift, one that will save lives
Kerri ní Dochartaigh
She names feelings I haven’t been able to.. takes experience and makes it political. This is exciting, important work
Helen Jukes (via Twitter)