# The Unfamiliar

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- Book: [The Unfamiliar](https://www.bookquiver.com/kirsty-logan/the-unfamiliar) ([The Unfamiliar.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kirsty-logan/the-unfamiliar.md))
- Authors: [Kirsty Logan](https://www.bookquiver.com/kirsty-logan)
- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-03-4901-657-3
- Published: 2023-07-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

An unconventional, unexpectedly funny, brutally honest memoir about infertility, pregnancy and motherhood 'You and your partner want a baby. But your two bodies can't make a baby together.' If you want a baby but your body says otherwise - If you don't know the polite way to say thank you for the sperm - If you're waiting for the sound of a brand-new heartbeat - If you know it takes a village to raise a baby but have no idea who should be doing what - If you're lurching between bliss and bewilderment - If you don't fit the shape of what you've been told a mother should be - Reach for The Unfamiliar and don't let go. Moving and immersive, and written with wisdom, disarming humour and raw honesty, The Unfamiliar casts a fresh eye on motherhood and challenges our assumptions about pregnancy, gender roles, queer identity and what it means to be a parent. 'Cold, hard, raw writing that somehow sets your heart on fire' LAURA DOCKRILL 'Fierce, honest, beautifully written... A marvel' PRAGYA AGARWAL 'Kirsty Logan writes with bright wit and wonder - I read this book in awe' DOIREANN NÍ GHRÍOFA 'Wonderful... Luminous writing captures the uncertainty, the fear, the sheer physicality of love' MARIANNE LEVY