My Wild and Sleepless Nights
The brave, raw Sunday Times bestselling memoir
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Publisher Description
'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 Heminsley
Charting 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 admit to - not only about motherhood, but also about female sexuality and identity. Her story will speak to all mothers, and anyone about to embark on that journey.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
“The plates fall and smash all the time,” says author Clover Stroud of juggling motherhood with working life. She has a solid bank of experience in both areas: My Wild and Sleepless Nights is a tender and sometimes incredibly unvarnished account of her fifth child’s first year and follows her 2017 memoir The Wild Other. You are swept into the chaotic world of a seven-piece family as the year hurtles from phone calls with disappointed secondary school teachers to Stroud’s crushing guilt at feeling that motherhood might not always be enough, even while she cradles her newborn baby. If you have children, you will no doubt have felt the thoughts Stroud explores in this book. You will probably also want to shove it under the nose of anyone who has ever sniped about maternity leave being a breeze.
