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My agonising vigil over my twins’ fight for life

8 June 2019

9:00 AM

8 June 2019

9:00 AM

Memoirs about giving birth, a subject once shrouded in mystery, have become so popular that another may seem otiose. We are all produced in variations of anxiety, pain and delight: what is the point of labouring labour?

Two years ago, the novelist Francesca Segal gave birth to twins ten weeks prematurely.

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