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The Baby’s Book
- Author: Francesca Beauman
- Category: Non-fiction
- Publisher: Under offer
- Pub date: tbc
- Length: 50,000 words approx.
About The Baby’s Book
THE BABY’S BOOK is a definitive new handbook for new mothers and mothers-to-be. A witty distillation of current wisdom about babies, the key to it – like its predecessor, THE WOMAN’S BOOK, which Weidenfeld published in 2007 – is the visually attractive manner in which the information is presented. Crammed with facts, figures, diagrams, lists, tables, flow charts, pie charts, quotes, illustrations and so on, the approach is very much a systematic one.
The topics featured in THE BABY’S BOOK focus in particular on the practical and ecological ramifications of having a baby. Yet complementing them is the book’s often left-field perspective, which aims to shed light on some of the many and varied cultural reference points that constitute the everyday existence of new mothers and mothers-to-be – each of which is treated with exactly the same degree of seriousness. Thus THE BABY’S BOOK is an indispensable and authoritative survival guide that will allow new mothers and mothers-to-be to tackle any problem with humour, style, and grace.
About the Author
Francesca Beauman is a historian and journalist. Born in London, Francesca was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and Cambridge University. She spent a decade as a television presenter, and is now the author of four books: a history of the pineapple entitled The Pineapple: king of fruits, The Woman’s Book, How to Crack an Egg with One Hand: a pocketbook for the new mother, and Shapely Ankle Preferr’d: a history of the Lonely Hearts ad, 1695-2010. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, film director James Bobin, and her two young children.