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Today Tara and Ana Sampson explore some great ideas for books for everyone’s Christmas list. We talk about motherhood, the secret world of the hospital, pretentious gifts, and the power of nature among many other relevant topics.

Find Ana @anabooks on Instagram and twitter or her website https://www.anasampson.co.uk 
Her stunning recent anthology “Night Feeds and Morning Songs” is well worth a read too (and look out for a guest discussing that on this podcast in a few weeks' time)

Ana’s Top 5 for your Christmas List

The Republic of Motherhood – Liz Berry
Performance of the title poem here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDyvUDZPyL0

Nightbitch – Rachel Yoder

Can you hear me? – Jake Jones

Histories – Sam Guglani

Wintering – Katherine May

Other Books we talked about

Ophelia Swam – Kelley Swain
After the storm – Emma Jane Unsworth
Larchfield – Polly Clarke
I am not your Babymother – Candice Braithwaite
I love you but I have Chosen Darkness - Claire Vaye Watkins

 
Other more medical resources

RCGP Perinatal Mental Health Toolkit
https://www.rcgp.org.uk/clinical-and-research/resources/toolkits/perinatal-mental-health-toolkit.aspx

RCOG response to the MBRACE report
https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/news/rcog-responds-to-latest-mbrrace-uk-maternal-report/