Life, Almost

After losing four pregnancies with no obvious cause Jennie Agg set out to understand why miscarriage remains such a profoundly misunderstood under-researched and under-acknowledged experience. Part-memoir part-scientific investigation Life Almost documents Agg's 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:

A Why are we told miscarriage can't be prevented when half of all miscarriages are of perfectly healthy embryos?

A Why is it normal not to tell anyone you're pregnant for the first three months?

A Why don't we know why labour starts?

Drawing on pioneering research and interviews with world-leading experts Life Almost is a ground-breaking 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.