The Squire by Enid Bagnold (narrated by Juliet Aubrey)

Published nearly eighty-five years ago, The Squire remains unique in being the only novel ever written about having a baby. Many novels focus on pregnancy, birth and motherhood but there isn’t another about the last few days before birth and the first few days afterwards. Bagnold wrote that she ‘wanted to pin down the quality of the pain and the love and the surprise and the effect of the birth on the mother, on the other children, on the nurse and on the servants.’ Refreshingly unsentimental, the squire thinks about her family, about death and about life, exclaiming about the latter – ‘what an invention for pleasure and for pain!’

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