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Newborn
- Author
- Clémentine Goldszal
- Narrator
- Siobhan Dowd
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Publish Date
- 8 October 2026
- Run Time
- 8 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A baby's first cry announces a new life. But for some newborns, rushed from the delivery room to the neonatal intensive care unit, their survival hangs in the balance.
What does it mean to enter the world before you're ready? And what can we truly know of newborn life-a time none of us can remember, yet all of us have lived?
Seeking answers, journalist Clémentine Goldszal spends six months inside the neonatal intensive care unit at Necker Hospital for Sick Children in Paris. There, she witnesses the daily dramas of the ward: babies fighting for breath, doctors and nurses pushing the limits of medicine in an overstretched healthcare system and parents learning to love a child through the walls of
an incubator.
Tender and deeply humane,
Newborn offers a rare glimpse into a world few of us ever see. It is both a portrait of those devoted to caring for the smallest and most vulnerable lives, and a visionary attempt to give voice to the mysterious inner life of the baby.
Critics Review
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'A work of radical empathy, Newborn will change the way you see the world. Taking the reader inside a neonatal intensive care unit, exploring foundational questions about the nature of care, medicine, being and personhood. An essential and transformative book'
Katie Kitamura, author of Audition
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'A luminous narrative that poses questions about newborns and about the mysteries of birth. . . You've never read anything like it. . . You'll emerge from this odyssey to the extremes of science and compassion more grateful to be alive'
ELLE
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'A beautifully observed 360-degree exploration of not only the world of the newborn - first breaths and first feeds, tiny hands and terrifying transfers, but that of the caregivers whose skill, care and compassion welcome these fragile beings safely into the world'
Molly Case, author of How to Treat People
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'You'd swear you could hear the voice of these beings as fragile as paper'
Le Temps
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Details
- Author
- Clémentine Goldszal
- Narrator
- Siobhan Dowd
- Duration
- 8 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 October 2026
- ISBN
- 9781807760533
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Genre
- Medicine / Healthcare: general issues / topics, Parenting, parenthood: advice, topics and issues
Synopsis
A baby's first cry announces a new life. But for some newborns, rushed from the delivery room to the neonatal intensive care unit, their survival hangs in the balance. What does it mean to enter the world before you're ready? And what can we truly know of newborn life-a time none of us can remember, yet all of us have lived? Seeking answers, journalist Clémentine Goldszal spends six months inside the neonatal intensive care unit at Necker Hospital for Sick Children in Paris. There, she witnesses the daily dramas of the ward: babies fighting for breath, doctors and nurses pushing the limits of medicine in an overstretched healthcare system and parents learning to love a child through the walls of an incubator. Tender and deeply humane, Newborn offers a rare glimpse into a world few of us ever see. It is both a portrait of those devoted to caring for the smallest and most vulnerable lives, and a visionary attempt to give voice to the mysterious inner life of the baby.
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