Constellations : reflections from life / Sinéad Gleeson.

London : Picador, 2019.

245 pages ; 22 cm

Blue hills and chalk bones -- Hair -- 60,000 miles of blood -- Our mutual friend -- On the atomic nature of trimesters -- Panopticon : hospital vision -- The moons of motherhood -- The haunted haunting women -- Where does it hurt? : twenty stories based on the McGill pain index -- A wound gives off it's own light -- The adventure narrative -- Twelve stories of bodily autonomy : (for the twelve women a day who leave) -- Second mother -- A non-letter to my daughter : (named for a warrior queen).