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Birth, like love, is an energy and a process, happening within a relationship. Both unfold with their own timing, with a uniqueness that can never be anticipated, with a power that can never be controlled, but with an exquisite mystery to be appreciated.

Elizabeth Noble

Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.

Elizabeth Noble

It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.

Elizabeth Noble

Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving birth don't make the same mistakes as their mothers or grandmothers-they make new ones.

Elizabeth Noble

Elizabeth Noble

Elizabeth Noble

Born: December 1, 1968 (age 57)

Bio: Elizabeth Noble is the author of seven novels: The Reading Group, The Tenko Club, Alphabet Weekends, Things I Want My Daughters to Know, The Girl Next Door and The Way We Were, which have reached the Sunday Times' Top 10 best sellers.

Known for:

The Reading Group (2003)
Alphabet Weekends (2005)
Between a Mother and Her Child (2012)
The Friendship Test (2005)
Sentries (2016)

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