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"""A highly original essay from a master stylist. With brutal honesty Desmond Traynor weaves the enthralling story of his personal experience with philosophical musings on the ethics of reproduction. Provocative, profound, and ultimately very balanced."" Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is a writer and critic. ""Desmond Traynor's 'The Most Natural Thing in the World' is a sweeping, personal, at times grippingly candid examination of perhaps the most fundamental decision a human being will ever make: whether or not to beget new life."" Rob Doyle is a writer, whose most recent book is Autobibliography. ""Reflecting on his own experience of family, Desmond Traynor has written a moving, clear-eyed examination of why society pressures women and men to reproduce. It is erudite, provocative and necessary."" Patrick Chapman, author of The Following Year."

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Desmond Traynor is a Hennessey Literary Award winning short story writer, whose stories have been widely published in anthologies and magazines and has been nominated for the Hughes & Hughes/Sunday Independent Irish Novel of the Year Award. He has a Distinction in the M Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin, in 2000. He currently reviews new fiction for The Irish Times: website www.desmondtraynor.blogspot.ie and www.desmondtraynor.comfor more details on the book see www.BeirBuaPress.com

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