A genre-bending meditation on sickness, spirituality, creativity, and the redemptive powers of writing
Jenn Ashworth is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and author of the novels A Kind of Intimacy, Cold Light, The Friday Gospels, and Fell. She is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University.
"What kind of book does a sick woman who cannot write actually
write?’ This is the question at the centre of the book, a book that
is, among other things, a meditation on aesthetic imperatives and
the quandaries of working in fictive or non-fictive modes,
especially when the subject is one borne of the body of the writer
and of trauma. This is a book that writers and readers will love to
think with at the same time that they experience the rhythms and
textures of the writing itself." – Mary Cappello, author of Life
Breaks In: A Mood Almanack
"This exceptional book cracks open the complexity of human
experience, exploring how to live and inhabit a body in the
aftermath of trauma and loss. Ashworth expertly weaves the broader
world into her story, threading art, writing, philosophy and
history, from Dickens to Mantel, Freud to Anne Boyer. Notes Made
While Falling is an evocative and profound meditation on living,
art and survival." – Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations
"This is a really important unique visceral book about birth,
trauma and new motherhood. I found the opening pages to be the most
moving description of the kind of trauma many women face in
childbirth in 2019 in the United Kingdom. It's raw and authentic,
and it moved me to tears and to rage. We need to make our system of
maternity care better." – Dr Rebecca Moore, consultant perinatal
psychiatrist and co-founder of Make Birth Better
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