My Wild and Sleepless Nights: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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You want to take the book in in small portions as you know it will end but you don't want it to end.

She pulls no punches about the complex emotional space motherhood inhabits, both the extreme love and the extreme boredom. Elizabeth Gilbert is quoted as saying of this book: “Every time a woman tells the truth like this, it sets another woman free” and I couldn’t agree more. As a mum of six I’m deeply grateful to read Clover’s book, putting into words the vast roller coaster of emotions that mothering can bring. I read it because my friend recommended it to me and I’m glad she did because I did identify with various aspects of the main character.I feel this book contained so many of the conversations I would like to have with my mother girlfriends but yet never seem to have the time for and perhaps I lack the ability to admit some truths. Photograph: Chris Floyd/The Guardian View image in fullscreen A painful, wonderful world … Clover Stroud and family at home. Notice to Internet Explorer users Server security: Please note Internet Explorer users with versions 9 and 10 now need to enable TLS 1. 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. At times I felt it a touch melodramatic and exaggerating in a chaotic negative fashion, but for a lot of it that worked and probably wasn't too far off the reality.

For Stroud, there is no question of an epidural: labour is and needs to be an extreme experience, which takes her to the brink of life and death, and “feels to me like the very reason I was put on this planet”. 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. I'd never heard of Clover Stroud and assumed this book would be like so many other parenting books that describe the funny and/or difficult bits of parenthood.Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. The best evocation of the all-consuming, self-eroding reality of motherhood, while also being luminous with love. We get a remarkable 360-degree view of many different stages of mothering, all happening at once: she lives through the passionate intensity of her first attachment with Lester, just as her eldest son, 16-year-old Jimmy, is in the process of separation, his adolescence “compelling us further and further apart, once magnets, now repelled”. I both read and listened to Clover narrate the book herself which she does beautifully and probably brings it more to life. However, now I feel like I need to read a book that tells me just how wonderful motherhood is or when it isn't how to regain a sense of self !