Hannah Marsh is a writer living on the wild North coast of Cornwall. A former national newspaper digital editor and feature writer, she's currently exploring the story of the Caesarean section, threading her way through myth, medicine, culture and folklore.
She is, and always has been, fascinated by people, their bodies and beliefs, and has a magpie-like interest in gleaning and gathering information, stories and interesting titbits. Her book will be published in 2025.
After Hannah's son was born by emergency Caesarean section in 2017, she became steadily gripped by the story behind this procedure, nowadays so common as to be largely pedestrian, once a dangerous, last-resort dance with death. She found herself immersed in a world of gods and goddesses, pig gelders and surgeons, folk heroes and their mothers, and she knew she had a tale to untangle.
Hannah is particularly eager to tell the quiet, sometimes obscured stories of women that history has not shone a light on, but upon whose bodies and suffering so many medical developments were built.
Photo credit - Emily Barlow
