My Wild and Sleepless Nights: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. Clover Stroud brought back so many memories, the good ones, and the bad ones, the happiness and joy as well as the fear and guilt you feel as a mother. After all, where’s the fun in providing boring old steadfast support when you could be out there getting buzzed on oxytocin? As someone with a huge maternal instinct, passion for working with children and life long aim of being a mother, I find anything about motherhood to be really interesting.

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. This is quite simply the best book about motherhood I have ever read: touching, tender, honest and true.But to keep ourselves on our toes, we have a rule that author gender is alternated, girl-boy-girl-boy, and the continents always rotated (with occasional glitches). You want to take the book in in small portions as you know it will end but you don't want it to end. I strongly related to hearing how lonely being a mother can be whilst also feeling astronomical amounts of love for your child.

Sometimes I think that a lot of parenthood is like that morning, trying to create an impression that you know what you are doing and are in control. At seven hours long, the audiobook was on the shorter side and I could happily have listened to another two hours at least. Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. She pulls no punches about the complex emotional space motherhood inhabits, both the extreme love and the extreme boredom.

It is a highly personal and brave book, a look right inside their life and what it is really like to be a mother of a big family. I don’t think it added to the book, it wasn’t what I was reading the book for, and I felt it would be fairly awful for her kids when one day they and their friends read it. Autorka měla první dítě v 16 a až když se dostala na počet pět dětí, řekla si "stačí a teď se budu věnovat sobě". Notice to Internet Explorer users Server security: Please note Internet Explorer users with versions 9 and 10 now need to enable TLS 1.