Lucy Jones and Amy Liptrot on Matrescence | 5x15

5x15 is delighted to welcome two best-selling and award-winning authors back to our virtual stage. This time, Lucy Jones and Amy Liptrot will be in conversation about Jones's highly anticipated new book MATRESCENCE: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Early Motherhood.

Other than adolescence, there is no other time in a human's life course that entails such dramatic change than pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood. So why has this transformation been so neglected by science, medicine and philosophy, and gone largely unrepresented across literature and the arts?

Lucy Jones's new book is a groundbreaking, deeply personal investigation into the emerging concept of 'matrescence', and an urgent examination of the modern institution of motherhood.

Join us for an inspiring conversation between Lucy Jones and Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun and The Instant. They will be discussing important questions around motherhood and femininity; interdependence and individual identity; as well as our relationships with each other and the living world.

Praise for Lucy Jones and MATRESCENCE

'A beautiful contemplation of the extraordinary yet ordinary metamorphosis that adult humans undergo as they become mothers ... I was entranced ... Matrescence is a passionate and powerful maternal roar for change' - GAIA VINCE

'Hypnotic, fascinating and long overdue. I am so glad it exists. A gift of a book and told beautifully.' - LAURA DOCKRILL

'A beautiful, intelligent book that is as tender and moving as it is demanding and urgent. There is something insightful and original in the way Lucy Jones seamlessly combines the analytical with the emotional, and it is an absolutely essential new addition to the literature of mothering and parenthood.' - CLOVER STROUD

Lucy Jones is a writer and journalist based in Hampshire, England. She previously worked at NME and the Daily Telegraph, and her writing on culture, science and nature has been published in GQ, BBC Wildlife, The Sunday Times, the Guardian and the New Statesman. Her bestselling book Losing Eden was a Times and Telegraph book of the year in 2020.

Amy Liptrot is the author of Sunday Times bestsellers The Outrun and The Instant, which was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. She writes columns and reviews for various magazines and newspapers including the Guardian and the Spectator, and recently presented Motherhood in Owl Woods: A Landscape for Recovery for BBC Radio 3.

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a profoundly relevant and timely book, its wealth of insights and connected observations bring a refreshing clarity to our understanding of motherhood.

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Is there anywhere I can get the audiobook? Audible says it does not have the rights to sell it in my country, which is the US. I gifted the hardcopy to my wife, but she would like to follow along with audio. Please help.