The First Breath
13 June 2019Imprint: Bluebird
Synopsis
‘Fascinating and moving.' - Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt
A BBC Radio 4 A Good Read choice
This is a story about the cutting-edge medicine that has saved a generation of babies.
It's about the love and fear a parent feels for a child they haven’t yet met.
It's about doctors, mothers, fathers and babies as together they fight for...
Details
13 June 2019320 pages
9781509871216Imprint: Bluebird
Reviews
Fascinating and moving.Adam Kay, Sunday Times bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt
Excellent . . . A serious journalistic investigation into foetal and neonatal medicine . . . reads like a thriller.The Times
HeartstoppingDaily Mail
A triumph of memoir-cum-non-fiction and a love story starring our heroes, the NHS . . . Totally brilliant and touching . . . tender, well researched and unputdownable, the best book I've read in the last twelve months. [The First Breath] moves effortlessly between personal stories of children and cutting edge scientific research . . . [Gordon makes] us feel the great and risky adventure of surviving a difficult childhood and becoming a person: and the linked one of being a parent . . . a wonderful, intelligent writer.Maggie Gee – BBC Radio 4 A Good Read choice
