My Wild and Sleepless Nights: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Upon expecting my second baby I enjoyed reading this nothing held back, honest opinions on motherhood you often don't hear.

We hear about Stroud's own complex relationship with motherhood, the challenges facing her other children, her relationship with her partner, her sex life, how she is trying to balance work and family plus so many more things. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Já nevím, přijde mi to prostě jako špatné pořadí - proč si dělat děti, když miluje jen šestinedělí a pak je to pro ni peklo? I strongly related to hearing how lonely being a mother can be whilst also feeling astronomical amounts of love for your child. Hodně mě ovlivňuje skutečnost, že u audioknihy čekám trochu procítěný přednes, a ne monotónní, skoro až strojové čtení bez špetky emocí, zvlášť když se jedná o takhle emotivní knihu.Yes, it would be very beneficial for any married couple with children, but not all of us have the means to make it happen. As someone going through the empty nest phase I was drawn back to the wonderfulness of wee ones as Clover reminded me of the beauty of being the whole world to tiny people and then to becoming a satellite to teenagers, all the while maintaining your own identity and sense of self along the way. She excels in evoking the feral, instinctive forces that motherhood unleashes, which can be so difficult to explain or describe (hence the shocked refrain of new mothers: “Nobody ever tells you!

Reading this book felt like having the most honest and emotional discussion with one of my best friends. Had it been a book solely about teenage parenting and had it left more to the imagination/own experience relationship wise, I’d probably be giving it 5 stars.There are no pastel colours here; Stroud’s mother-love is “as raw and rare as cutting through the soft dark crimson of uncooked liver”. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would definitely recommend it to anyone else who loves reading about motherhood or who is already mother and wants to read about someone else's journey! I love how she isn't afraid to lay it all bare and admit she's making it up as she goes along, like so many of do. After all, where’s the fun in providing boring old steadfast support when you could be out there getting buzzed on oxytocin?

Stroud was shortlisted for the Wainwright prize for nature writing for her debut memoir, The Wild Other. Her own mother was brain damaged in a horrific riding accident when Stroud was 16: “Much of my life has been about seeking strong motion both to make me feel alive and distract from the pain of existence. Reading this is like repeatedly gulping down the bright orange smoothies her children love: sharp, refreshing, sloshing, delicious, and entirely without pause.

This is quite simply the best book about motherhood I have ever read: touching, tender, honest and true.