Breasts: A Relatively Brief Relationship

’I LOVED this book’ Nina Stibbe

’A must-read’ Jessie Burton

In this short, striking memoir, Jean Hannah Edelstein charts the course of her unexpectedly brief relationship with breasts.

As she comes of age, she learns that breasts are a source of both shame and power. In early motherhood, she sees her breasts transform into a source of sustenance and a locus of pain. And then, all too soon, she is faced with a diagnosis and forced to confront what it means to lose and rebuild an essential part of yourself.

Funny and moving, elegant and furious and full of heart, Breasts is an original and indispensable read. It is both an intimate account of one woman’s relationship with her own body and a universally relatable story for anyone who has ever had - or lost - breasts.

Jean Hannah Edelstein is a British-American writer. Her memoir, This Really Isn’t About You, was published by Picador in 2018. Her journalism has been published in numerous UK and US outlets, including the Guardian, Elle and New York Magazine, and she’s contributed to radio programmes including This American Life. She lives with her family in Montclair, New Jersey.