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Close, Sarah

 
9781916812772: This Did Hurt: What I wish I’d known about our stretched maternity services
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ISBN 10 : 1916812775 ISBN 13 : 9781916812772
Editeur : Saraband / Contraband, 2026

Synopsis

A raw, darkly funny, and deeply affecting memoir about women’s health care and the devastating consequences of not being heard.

What begins as the joy of a long-awaited pregnancy gradually unravels into an exhausting journey through a healthcare system that too often dismisses women’s pain, minimizes their concerns, and overlooks critical warning signs.

In This Did Hurt, Sarah Close recounts her experience with unflinching honesty, balancing moments of fear, vulnerability, and frustration with sharp humor and emotional clarity. As anxiety grows and trust in the medical system begins to fracture, she finds herself confronting not only personal trauma but also the broader realities of an overstretched system that frequently fails both patients and healthcare workers alike.

This memoir speaks to every woman who has ever felt ignored, doubted, or made to question her own body. It is for those whose symptoms were dismissed, whose pain was underestimated, and whose voices were treated as inconvenient.

At once personal and politically urgent, This Did Hurt shines a light on the widening gaps in women’s healthcare while asking difficult questions about accountability, empathy, and the human cost of systemic failure.

Honest, compassionate, and fiercely resonant, this is a story about survival, resilience, and the importance of being believed.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Close is an experienced scriptwriter who won a BBC comedy scriptwriting competition in her twenties and went on to develop scripts for Writersroom, working alongside comedy commissioning at the BBC. Sarah has the distinctive ability to see humour in the most challenging of situations. This Did Hurt, covering similar territory to Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt but from the patient's side of the curtain, charts her journey into motherhood in a maternity care system pushed too far. It is her first book. Sarah also co-runs two Cat Cafes with her sister, providing animal-assisted therapy for local communities in Manchester and Liverpool. She lives in Lancashire with her husband and two children.

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Éditeur
Saraband / Contraband
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1916812775
ISBN 13 
9781916812772
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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