Baby Lost

A Story of Grief and Hope

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Pub Date 31 Jul 2017 | Archive Date 17 Oct 2017
Melbourne University Publishing | Melbourne University Press

Description

What happens when a death occurs within your body, but you survive? Two days after Christmas, law lecturer Hannah Robert, eight months pregnant, was driving her partner and stepkids home from a picnic when their car was crushed by a four-wheel-drive. Hannah's baby didn't survive.

When Hannah told her story in court, the judge wept. In her struggle to make sense of the personal and legal aftermath, Hannah had to find out what it means to mother a dead child and to renegotiate her own relationship with hope. Her powerful story is written with clarity and beauty, shining light on an unimaginably dark event and is, unexpectedly, tempered with life and promise.


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Hannah Robert is a law lecturer at La Trobe University Law School. She writes about legal parentage, law and pregnancy, family law, feminism, colonial legal history and her own babies, both living and dead. Paved with Good Intentions: Terra Nullius, Aboriginal Land Rights and Settler-Colonial Law, was published by Halstead Press, and her writing has appeared in The Conversation, the Journal of Law and Medicine, the Australian Feminist Law Journal and Good Weekend.

What happens when a death occurs within your body, but you survive? Two days after Christmas, law lecturer Hannah Robert, eight months pregnant, was driving her partner and stepkids home from a...


Advance Praise

‘Beautifully written, harrowing, raw’ – Alice Pung

‘Hannah Robert’s Baby Lost is a stunning rumination on the minutiae of loss and grief, and the epic struggle involved in putting yourself back together after unspeakable tragedy. Baby Lost is a courageous and beautiful memoir. With devastating honesty, Hannah offers up her grief, presenting her story with a deft, insightful touch, allowing the reader to bear witness to a loss that is far too often unspoken.’ – Monica Dux

‘A gutsy, vivid and unflinching book about unspeakable loss. Hannah Roberts’s book will resonate with anyone who has known the darkness of grief, and the gradually returning light.’ – Hilary Harper

‘Beautifully written, harrowing, raw’ – Alice Pung

‘Hannah Robert’s Baby Lost is a stunning rumination on the minutiae of loss and grief, and the epic struggle involved in putting yourself back...


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ISBN 9780522869439
PRICE A$29.99 (AUD)

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