This blog post is to highlight the release of ‘The Brink Of Being’ by Julia Bueno
Published on 2nd May by Virago books, it is a memoir and reflection on the nature of miscarriage and how it remains something we still, as a society, do not talk about.
Alongside the launch of the book, a 9km charity walk is being undertaken along the Thames.
The link to support the fundraising that this event is hoping to give to The Miscarriage Association is at the end of this post.
Please consider supporting them, I have donated as I could not physically be there, but it would mean so much if anyone out there could.
Thank you so much.
About the book-
‘A much needed book on this difficult and often unspoken loss, that of early pregnancy … both illuminating and consoling.’ Julia Samuel, author of Grief Works
It estimated that one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage and yet it persists as taboo. In The Brink of Being, a groundbreaking and essential book, psychotherapist Julia Bueno encourages us to talk about, think more, and reflect upon this often misunderstood, and little discussed event.
Drawing on her personal experience of miscarriage, stories from her consulting room, and interviews with medical professionals and researchers, Bueno provides history, context and consolation for anyone who has been through pregnancy loss, or wants to know how to help someone who has.
Bueno also investigates miscarriage in terms of how we respond to women’s bodies and reproductive health, our attitudes to birth and death, and how we can – and should – encourage more curiosity and candid conversations, in order to better support the many affected by this loss.
‘Intelligent, sensitive, and utterly candid … It’s the sort of book that women have long been searching for, and it feels like real progress. I’m so thankful she wrote it’ Meaghan O’Connell, author of And Now We Have Everything
About the author-
Julia Bueno practises full-time as a psychotherapist in London. She has a particular expertise in working with women, and men, who have experienced a loss in pregnancy or a struggle to conceive.
She was a trustee of the Miscarriage Association and now runs a support group for the organization.
Her writing has
been published in Times, Sunday Times, Express, Therapy Today and
welldoing.org. The Brink of Being is her first book.
Links-
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/thebrinkofbeing
Twitter @JBueno_UKCP
@ViragoBooks
@MiscarriageA
Author
bridgeman.lenny@gmail.com