{"product_id":"9781250828255","title":"A Life's Work : On Becoming a Mother","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA Life's Work\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Rachel Cusk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMulti-award-winning author Rachel Cusk’s honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Funny and smart and refreshingly akin to a war diary—sort of Apocalypse Baby Now . . . \u003ci\u003eA Life’s Work\u003c\/i\u003e is wholly original and unabashedly true.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother \u003c\/i\u003eis Rachel Cusk’s funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood. When it was published it 2001, it divided critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk’s children be taken into care, saying she was unfit to look after them, and Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn education in babies, books, breast-feeding, toddler groups, broken nights, bad advice and never being alone, it is a landmark work, which has provoked acclaim and outrage in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Cusk's] account is extraordinary for its absence of polemic: she writes with the intelligence, wit, and keen eye for detail demanded by any kind of reporting, and the result is a book on the subject curiously unlike any other.\" \u003ci\u003e—The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eA Life's Work\u003c\/i\u003e] is as compulsive as a thriller although its plot (pregnancy, birth, colic, sleepless nights) is - naturally - a shambles and its cast tiny and undistinguished (mother, father, baby, doctor, health visitor, a few friends). Its time scheme is wild - vertiginously unchronological, as if to convey the disorientation of fatigue: babies destroy all sense of conventional time . . . She describes the book as a letter to women 'in the hope that they find some companionship in my experience'. No mother could fail to be interested and moved. Most will recognise themselves.\" \u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eKate Kellaway, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eRachel Cusk writes about new motherhood with an honesty and clarity that  makes this memoir feel almost illicit. 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. \"  \u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eJennifer Szalai,\u003ci\u003e The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250828255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40769561166030,"sku":"9781250828255","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_a1507898-371b-4de5-9f7d-0c01192d961c.jpg?v=1642053756","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250828255","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}