Wilderness

From the author of The Anthropologists, an intimate reflection on the first forty days of motherhood.

‘An exceptionally elegant, intelligent, and original writer’ SIGRID NUNEZ

Everywhere in the wilderness I hear the cries of other mothers. I call back to them, asking for help, but sometimes they can’t hear me through their own cries.

A forty-day journey of trial or transformation has meaning in many cultures, including in Ayşegül Savaş’s own.

In this candid, tender essay, she charts a path through an unknown landscape - the first days with her newborn baby - in search of herself and the words for what has happened to her.

‘One of my favourite writers’ KATIE KITAMURA

‘An author who simply, and astoundingly, knows’ BRYAN WASHINGTON

‘I fell instantly in love. Whatever Savaş writes next, I will read' JENNY MUSTARD on The Anthropologists