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Lucy Jones

Award-winning journalist
Arts & Media
UK

About Lucy

Lucy Jones is an award-winning journalist and the author of four books including Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild and Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood, which was longlisted for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and a New Yorker and New Statesman Book of the Year. Her writing on ecology, health and science has been published widely. She lives in England with her family.

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Stories by Lucy

  • Parenthood & Caregiving

Becoming a parent changes our brains

Embracing "matrescence" can reshape how we care for caregivers

Birth of a Parent Podcast

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Matrescence

On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood

by Lucy Jones

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