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Hannah Robert Hannah Robert i(A83728 works by)
Born: Established: ca. 1976 Stockholm,
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Sweden,
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Scandinavia, Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Female
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1 1 y separately published work icon Baby Lost : A Story of Grief and Hope Hannah Robert , Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2017 11590185 2017 single work autobiography

'What happens when a death occurs within your body, but you survive? Two days after Christmas, law lecturer Hannah Robert, eight months pregnant, was driving her partner and stepkids home from a picnic when their car was crushed by a four-wheel-drive. Hannah’s baby didn’t survive.

'When Hannah told her story in court, the judge wept. In her struggle to make sense of the personal and legal aftermath, Hannah had to find out what it means to mother a dead child and to renegotiate her own relationship with hope.

'Her powerful story is written with clarity and beauty, shining light on an unimaginably dark event and is, unexpectedly, tempered with life and promise. ' (Publication summary)

 
1 The Second-Best Blanket Hannah Robert , 2015 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Mothermorphosis : Australia's Best Storytellers Write About Becoming a Mother 2015; (p. 147-164)
1 Sky-High Hannah Robert , 1994 single work short story
— Appears in: Gathering Force , Spring no. 1 1994; (p. 14)
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