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'simply beautiful, moving, generous - and welcome.'-
The Australian

When classical pianist Anna Goldsworthy falls pregnant with her first child, she is both excited and anxious about what lies ahead. Should she indulge her craving for sausage after sixteen years without meat? Will her birth plan involve Enya or hypnosis, or neither? And just how worried should she be about her baby falling into a composting toilet?

This delightful memoir reveals the love that binds families together.
Welcome to Your New Life captures the shock of leaving behind the life that you know and the thrill of starting the great adventure that is parenthood.

'A keen-eyed, funny, tender, wonderful book.' - Chloe Hooper

'This book does what great literature should: it tries to get a grip on life - the making of it, the living-and-loving it, the leaving it. Goldsworthy's writing is so beautiful, so laser-acute and funny and moving that you feel you are living more vividly.
Welcome to Your New Life seems essential to me now. I laughed and I cried and I absolutely loved it.' - Anna Funder

Anna Goldsworthy is the author of
Piano Lessons and the Quarterly Essay
Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny. Her writing has appeared in the
Monthly, the
Age, the
Australian, the
Adelaide Review and
The Best Australian Essays. She is also a concert pianist, with several recordings to her name.
Review
'This book does what great literature should: it tries to get a grip on life - the making of it, the living-and-loving it, the leaving it. Goldsworthy's writing is so beautiful, so laser-acute and funny and moving that you feel you are living more vividly.'
- Anna Funder
'A keen-eyed, funny, tender, wonderful book.'
- Chloe Hooper
'few books have made me howl with laughter as this one has...she has an exquisite ability to recast the banal into another sphere....a deliciously subversive read.'
- 
The Melbourne Review --
- Chloe