Strange Bodies

A Father’s Story of Pregnancy and Loss

Tom De Freston (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2025
Granta Books (Verlag)
978-1-78378-991-7 (ISBN)

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A deeply moving love letter from an artist to his wife as they struggle with the loss of multiple pregnancies, exploring how powerful bonds transform as lovers become family.

In 2020, artist Tom de Freston and his wife, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, discovered they were expecting twins. But Kiran miscarried, and thus began a long road to parenthood that saw the loss of six more pregnancies. Pulsing with wonder and insight, Strange Bodies is both a deeply moving chronicle of this journey - of the role of art in making sense of grief and of the struggle to create new life - and a love letter to Kiran, exploring how powerful bonds transform as lovers become family.

Tom de Freston is a visual artist based in Oxford, and the author of Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival (Granta 2021). Among various fellowships and residencies he has held a Leverhulme residency at Cambridge University, a Levy Plumb Residency at Christ's College and the inaugural Creative Fellowship at Birmingham University. His work is regularly exhibited, and is represented in numerous public and private collections. With his wife, the writer Kiran Millwood Hargrave, he is the co-creator of Orpheus and Eurydice and Julia and the Shark, winner of the Waterstones Children's Gift of the Year.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.03.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
ISBN-10	1-78378-991-3 / 1783789913
ISBN-13	978-1-78378-991-7 / 9781783789917
Zustand	Neuware