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A beautifully written, brutally honest dissection of motherhood by a woman who has five children, from pregnancy to teenagers, covering both the extreme highs and lows. Stroud's writing examines what it is to be a woman with the same sensitive skill fans of her first memoir, The Wild Other, will recall. * Independent * 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. Stroud's book was definitely interesting but it was so much more than that. So at the moment grief is like an occupation. Its very demanding and very lonely, but the kids force you to keep going even when you don’t feel like it. I’m just finding my way.”

I devoured it in one gollop. Clover’s extreme honesty is a rare and lovely thing. A wonderful book. Julie MyersonI have had a lot of loss in my life,” Clover says, “so the next book is about living with that darkness and thinking about that what loss has done to me and alchemising that into something more beautiful, as well as how it has shaped my life.” The best evocation of the all-consuming, self-eroding reality of motherhood, while also being luminous with love.' - Sunday Times I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t struggle with motherhood in some way however they portray themselves” A beautifully written, incredibly timely book' - Clover Stroud, author of My Wild and Sleepless Nights

Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. There were many things I loved about this fascinating book, which from the blurb I’d thought was about a mum of a newborn and a teenager - I didn’t realise she had three children in between too, and I admire anyone who can manage 5 kids! She has an amazing way with words, and she is right that many parenting books deal with pregnancy and the early years and don’t look at what happens after that, what you might honestly feel as a mum, and how extreme the highs and lows of parenting can be. She talks of loss as your children grow up, but how you carry all your memories together. I loved her honesty in that sense. 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. BEST NON-FICTION OF 2020: Clover Stroud charts the highs and lows of motherhood in all their deep, dark glory. Sarra Manning, RED Magazine What a beautiful writer Clover Stroud is! This honest look at the high and lows of the roller coaster that is maternal life and love is both joyous and exhilarating. * Cathy Rentzenbrink *I know the festival is virtual this year, but I can’t wait. I love TAL – I think it’s my favourite literary festival. It’s always a complete joy so it will be exciting to do it slightly differently and the idea that people can watch it from all around the world is really inspiring.” We are conditioned to treat motherhood like some niche domestic craft or private medical condition, not fit or seemly to be discussed in front of others. But that is an act of cultural violence, which allows injustice to run riot through society and clog up our lives like weeds. The truth is that motherhood is what made you, me, the economy, politics, science, art, warfare and industry. And, as Stroud proves with her own unvarnished account, it can be an exhausting act of courage.

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