Book cover for The First Breath

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11 June 2020
368 pages
9781509871209
Imprint: Bluebird

Reviews

Fascinating and moving.
Excellent . . . A serious journalistic investigation into foetal and neonatal medicine . . . reads like a thriller.
Heartstopping
A triumph of memoir-cum-non-fiction and a love story starring our heroes, the NHS . . . Totally brilliant and touching . . . tender, well researched and unputdownable, the best book I've read in the last twelve months. [The First Breath] moves effortlessly between personal stories of children and cutting edge scientific research . . . [Gordon makes] us feel the great and risky adventure of surviving a difficult childhood and becoming a person: and the linked one of being a parent . . . a wonderful, intelligent writer.