{"product_id":"bad-mother-9781444763157","title":"Bad Mother","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''I want to be in the company of her frank intelligence forever'' \u003ci\u003eNigella Lawson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn our mothers'' day there were good mothers, indifferent mothers, and occasionally, great mothers. Today we have only Bad Mothers: If you work, you''re neglectful; if you stay home, you''re smothering. If you discipline, you''re buying them a spot on the shrink''s couch; if you let them run wild, they will be into drugs by seventh grade. Is it any wonder so many women refer to themselves at one time or another as a bad mother?\u003cbr\u003eWriting with remarkable candor, and dispensing much hilarious and helpful advice along the way--Is breast best? What should you do when your daughter dresses up as a ho for Halloween?--Ayelet Waldman says it''s time for women to get over it and get on with it in this wry, unflinchingly honest, and always insightful memoir on modern motherhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is not only a wonderfully written book, but I think it may also be a book of great salvation for many women. Most of the mothers I know (the honest ones, the tired ones, the confused ones) will see themselves reflected in these wise pages, and will find long-overdue comfort here. * Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love *\u003cbr\u003eI have often felt that it is impossible to be a mother without a profound, even corrosive, sense of failure, or at least that's how I feel about myself. To find a book that shares that anxiety, and an author who dissects this insecurity and self-doubt with wit, honesty and proper, enquiring intelligence, is (as a reader) like being grossly dehydrated and being presented with a vat of water to drink. ...I want to be in the company of her frank intelligence forever * Nigella Lawson *\u003cbr\u003eMany find Waldman's honesty hard to take. For some of us it's hard to live without * People *\u003cbr\u003eAbsorbing reading ... takes brave risks. ...What really makes Waldman's book interesting, as voices of motherhood go, is Waldman herself - the intensity of her positions and the way she thinks. * The New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eWaldman is a corageous and talented writer. Her greatest accomplishment in this book is to take her experience - some of our worst fears - and make it something we can understand. ...Isn't that a mother's real job? * Susan Cheever, The Daily Beast *","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408400720215,"sku":"9781444763157","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781444763157.jpg?v=1730502768","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bad-mother-9781444763157","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}