Full of ideas, buzzing with energy and great green tips for parents

As a mother of four modern children this book showed me how to get green with ease

A splendidly inspiring book, which will encourage all the family to enjoy going "green"

An unadulterated delight...suffused with a sense of love and very, very funny

Gasp-making, jaw-dropping and eloquently astounding

Enright is such an original and witty writer. Her tone is utterly unsentimental and kept reducing me to tears

Anne Enright is an eloquent writer...dazzlingly funny

Making Babies is not just a good book, it's a good thing. It induces hope. It creates an appetite for life. It is also a very effective contraceptive

A hopelessly vivid maker of sentence, of the sort you can't help reading aloud to whoever happens to be nearby... Ms. Enright's commentary on gender politics and babies, like a swimming pool illuminated by underwater lights, also casts an entrancingly strange glow

Joyous!... very funny. With originality and truth, she perfectly nails the madness and simplicity of motherhood

a rich account...brilliant vignettes

This piercing memoir paints in vivid colours Julia Blackburn's nightmarish childhood

Blackburn tells us about these things in a compelling authorial voice which is by turns numb and incredibly sensitive

Brutally honest book ...deeply moving testament to the love that can somehow survive

An extraordinary family memoir... A bohemian classic