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Welcome to Your New Life by Anna Goldsworthy

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April 2013, no. 350

Welcome to Your New Life by Anna Goldsworthy

Black Inc., $29.99 pb, 224 pp, 9781863955935

Welcome to Your New Life by Anna Goldsworthy

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April 2013, no. 350

The welcome in the title of this memoir refers both to Goldsworthy welcoming her baby son and to her recognition that her own life has irrevocably changed. The commonplace but also profound shifts resulting from motherhood are gently displayed for the reader, without sentimentality or the relentless self-deprecating irony of many motherhood memoirs and blogs. As readers of her earlier memoir, Piano Lessons (2009), will know, Goldsworthy’s touch is light but sure. It is a simple story of pregnancy, birth, family dramas, and learning to parent, but it is engaging and often very funny.

Rachel Robertson reviews 'Welcome to Your New Life' by Anna Goldsworthy

Welcome to Your New Life

by Anna Goldsworthy

Black Inc., $29.99 pb, 224 pp, 9781863955935

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