My Wild and Sleepless Nights - Clover Stroud - diskuze

''Raw, elemental and beautiful.'' Telegraph''This is quite simply the best book about motherhood I have ever read.'' - Eleanor Mills in the Sunday Times Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative and profoundly insightful book, she captures a sense of what motherhood really feels like - how intense, sensuous, joyful, boring, profound and dark it can be.My Wild and Sleepless Nights examines what it means to be a mother, and reveals with unflinching honesty the many conflicting emotions that this entails: the joy and the wonder, the loneliness and despair. MORE PRAISE FOR CLOVER STROUD:''Clover''s expertise is writing about family life in a way that feels both new and entirely familiar'' - Pandora Sykes''As tender, blazing, funny and unflinching as the love it describes. I want to give this triumphant book to every mother I know'' - Rachel Joyce''Stroud is always willing to rip open her very soul in order to reveal the truth about her life - and every time a woman tells the truth like this, it sets another woman free'' - Elizabeth Gilbert''I read in one greedy gulp and am still slightly reeling. Extraordinary writing... For mothers and those even vaguely interested in family dynamics it is fascinating'' - Alexandra HeminsleyCharting the course of one year, the first in her youngest child''s life, Clover searches for answers to questions that many of us would be too afraid to
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