Phoenix acquires Jean Hannah Edelstein's 'memoir in miniature'

Main said: "I was a fan of Jean Hannah Edelstein’s writing long before I was lucky enough to become her editor and am very proud to be publishing this short, sharp shock of a book. It is funny and sad (often both at once), elegant and furious and full of heart. All of us at Phoenix immediately wanted to press it into the hands of others, from teenagers coming of age to young women in the post-#MeToo era, and from new mothers to anyone facing the prospect of surgery or an unexpected brush with mortality. I think it’s very special and can’t wait for the conversations it will spark." 

Edelstein said: "I’m delighted to be working with Francesca and Daisy again. Breasts started as something of an inchoate scream of an essay, but has evolved, with their care and patience, into a book that I hope will find its way to the people who need it."

Parente said: "I sat down to read Breasts and came up for air an hour later utterly amazed; Jean’s writing is perfect at a sentence level, but her work also makes you want to ring people and read them paragraphs over the phone. I am, honestly, just so very proud to represent it."

Breasts: A Relatively Brief Relationship  will be published by Phoenix in hardback, e-book and audiobook in March 2025.