On 2nd May, Virago are publishing The Brink of Being: Talking About Miscarriage by Julia Bueno. To mark publication day, Virago are embarking on a 9km charity walk along the Thames to raise money for The Miscarriage Association and would love to invite anyone to join. We also invite you to wear the colour blue as it's the colour of The Miscarriage Association.

We will be meeting outside Virago's offices (Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DZ) at 2pm on Thursday 2nd May and if you'd like to join the charity walk, please email Grace.Vincent@littlebrown.co.uk 

Miscarriage is an experience that is unfortunately all too common - it is estimated that one in four pregnancies end in this way - and yet persists as taboo. In The Brink of Being, a groundbreaking and essential book, psychotherapist Julia Bueno encourages us to think more, and reflect upon this often misunderstood, and little discussed experience. Drawing on her personal experience of miscarriage, stories from her consulting room, and interviews with medical professionals, pregnancy loss charities and researchers, Bueno provides history, context and consolation for anyone who has experience pregnancy loss, or wants to know how to support someone who has. Bueno also investigates miscarriage in terms of how we respond to women's bodies and reproductive health, our attitudes to birth and death, and how we can - and should - encourage more curiosity and candid conversations about all of this, in order to better support the many affected by this loss.

'A much needed book on this difficult and often unspoken loss, that of early pregnancy. Julia Bueno talks powerfully from her personal experience as well as professionally which is both illuminating and consoling' Julia Samuel, author of Grief Works

'An intelligent, sensitive, and utterly candid book about miscarriage. Thanks to Bueno's radical empathy and openness, the read comes away more consoled than heartbroken, and more curious than afraid. It's the sort of book that women have long been searching for, and it feels like real progress. I'm so thankful she wrote it' Meaghan O'Connell, author of And Now We Have Everything