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A woman considers pregnancy motherhood and the nature of female relationships in this profound and provocative novel

Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second child As this loss strains their bond and complications with Annas own pregnancy emerge her tenuous steps towards motherhood are shadowed and illuminated by the women she meets along the way whose stories of the children they have had or longed for or lost crowd in

The Long Answer is a stunning novel of secrets kept and secrets shared Deeply empathetic and hugely absorbing it unravels the intimate dynamics of female friendship sisterhood motherhood and grief and the ways that women are bound together and pulled apart by their shared and contrasting experiences of pregnancy abortion miscarriage and infertility