'Interrogates new lands of contemporary parenthood with nuance, curiosity, smarts and heart' Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence In the summer of 2020, when Amanda Hess was pregnant for the first time, a routine ultrasound screening detected a mysterious abnormality in her baby. This is her story - of a pregnancy that fell outside the feted catgegory of 'normal', and everything that happened afterwards. But as she made her way through a bizarre digital world of pregnancy apps, prenatal genetic tests, gender reveal videos, rare disease Facebook groups and 'freebirth' influencers, Hess realised that it is also a story about all of us. 'Unexpected, intellectually rigorous, funny, beautiful' Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma 'Captures the anxiety and weirdness of reproduction in our modern screen-based, app-oriented culture. Insightful . very funny' Wall Street Journal 'Hess's debut memoir bursts with humour and intelligence . this unexpected page-turner is as vulnerable as it is sharp' Vulture.