After losing four pregnancies with no obvious cause, Jennie Agg set out to understand why miscarriage remains such a profoundly misunderstood, under-researched and under-acknowledged experience.

Part-memoir, part-scientific investigation, Life, Almost documents Agg's path to motherhood and her search for answers. Tracing each tentative step of her fifth pregnancy - as her body becomes a creature she does not wish to spook - Agg dismantles the myths that we unquestioningly accept about our reproductive lives:

* Why are we told miscarriage can't be prevented when half of all miscarriages are of perfectly healthy embryos?

* Why is it normal not to tell anyone you're pregnant for the first three months?

* Why don't we know why labour starts?