A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother

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I found this to be an unbelievably honest chronicle of one woman's ambivalance regarding her journey into the world of motherhood and all that it entails.

If we do away with the notion that the personal is political, as feminism-lite is wont to do, who gets left holding the baby? We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.Just see what happens next, day by day, trusting in the relationship of mother and child above all as the main incoming on a need-to-know basis. Claire Messud, Guardian Books of the Year 'Cusk is not afraid to address frankly the grief for freedom lost, the despair, pain, boredom and guilt - all in the context of the mother's unspeakable love for the baby . There is also some evidence that if the mother sleeps with the baby in bed (and nobody else eg like a partner), there's a decrease in cot death and the mother definitely gets more sleep. In a 2008 essay, she wrote: “I was accused of child-hating, of postnatal depression, of shameless greed, of irresponsibility, of pretentiousness, of selfishness, of doom-mongering and, most often, of being too intellectual. How do parents, particularly the stay at home parent, survive the loneliness and exhaustion of the first year of a baby's life ?

That is essential reading not only for all mothers but for everyone to fully understand both the privilege and sacrifice of motherhood. Today, a woman in a Range Rover pulled up at a junction where we had stopped, and rolled down her window. In 'A Life’s Work' novelist Rachel Cusk attempts to tell something of this story, an old story set in a new era of sexual equality. 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.A Life’s Work” is perhaps the most beautifully written and moving book on the subject to be published in recent years. Still, I’m glad I listened, the narrator is very good, the book is quite short and it’s nice to have my own opinion about these somewhat controversial/marmite books. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Despite the number of people who had praised and admired it, and the letters I received to that effect from readers, I regretted, constantly, the fact that I had written A Life's Work. Her generation came to experience the brick wall that is one's own (birth) trauma and she is honest enough to accept that we don't know who we are until others make us into something that suddenly fails us anyway.