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After losing four pregnancies with no obvious cause Jennie Agg set out to understand why miscarriage remains such a profoundly misunderstood underresearched and underacknowledged experience

Partmemoir partscientific investigation Life Almost documents Aggs path to motherhood and her search for answers Tracing each tentative step of her fifth pregnancy as her body becomes a creature she does not wish to spook Agg dismantles the myths that we unquestioningly accept about our reproductive lives

Why are we told miscarriage cant be prevented when half of all miscarriages are of perfectly healthy embryos

Why is it normal not to tell anyone youre pregnant for the first three months

Why dont we know why labour starts

Drawing on pioneering research and interviews with worldleading experts Life Almost is a groundbreaking book that will change how you think about miscarriage and a moving reflection on grief and love at the edge of life as we understand it

Jennie Agg 2023 P Penguin Audio 2023