Join now to access our Study Guides library, which offers chapter-by-chapter summaries and comprehensive analysis on more than 5,000 literary works from novels to nonfiction to poetry. Sleepless nights, yes; colic, yes; but also a raw, frantic love for her firstborn daughter that she depicts and dissects with both rigor and amazement. When author Rachel Cusk wrote A Life's Work, her disarmingly frank account of motherhood, she was shocked by the vicious reaction it provoked from other women. I have not said much about my particular circumstances, nor about the people with whom I live, nor about the other relationships inevitably surrounding the relationship I describe with my child. I feel sorry for her, especially when she mentions her saddness for the passing of the time when the baby was tiny and dependant, the very moments that caused the author such turmoil.

But I kept reading because I was on a plane from New York to Vegas with my 2 month old and I didn't have much else to do. Shane Snow, Forbes, 5 May 2023 But today, the Times says that Hinton's worry about the future of AI has driven him to partially regret his life's work.It lay remotely, far from town, in a lush green crease of hills that rose steadily up to meet the moor.

Childbirth and motherhood are the anvil upon which sexual inequality was forged, and the women in our society whose responsibilities, expectations and experience are like those of men are right to approach it with trepidation.

I would especially recommend it for a mum to be, or someone with little kids/babies - if they can find the time to read it. I wilfully forgot everything that I had felt so keenly, so little time ago: I couldn’t bear, in fact, to feel it. We are all different, we all led different lives before we became mothers, we all have different levels of support systems and expectations. I'm sorry to say that any mother who objects to this book is either in denial or being very insensitive to someones else's experience. Again and again people judged the book not as readers but as mothers, and it was judgment of a sanctimoniousness whose like I had never experienced.

Yes, motherhood is hard (especially the first several months in my experience), but with all its hardships and challenges comes so much joy and magic and the kind of love you didn't know even existed. Her version of Euripides’ Medea was directed by Rupert Goold and was shortlisted for the Susan Blackburn Smith Award. All through a drizzling Exmoor winter I had been writing a book, in a tiny rented place up on the moor where we stayed while we looked for somewhere to live. J’ai juste voulu être honnête’ a-t-elle répondu dans un article pour le Guardian dans lequel elle a tenté de comprendre pourquoi son livre avait attiré autant de critiques hostiles à sa sortie.

I feel that my own experience of having a baby has been a very positive one- I feel happy and successful as a parent (so far! This book is a modest approach to the theme of motherhood, written in the first heat of its subject. Secondly, this author does not (and clearly does not) understand the whole new mum dynamic, which is essential for so many people with new babies who are entering a brand new world.