Milk
When 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.
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'Sublime'
– Donal Ryan, author of Strange Flowers on Milk
'Here is a writer who matters'
-The Irish Times on Milk
'A book about the raw, riotous, brutally beautiful act of being alive.'
– Kerri Ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places on Milk
'Milk is a raw, unvarnished journey down the mothering rabbit hole'
– The Irish Independent on Milk
‘More than motherhood, Kinsella's memoir is about the struggle to feel what she calls 'real' in the age of social media. Her journey is an important and absorbing one that speaks to us all, female or not.’
– Times Literary Supplement on Milk