I really wanted to love this book and had high hopes after reading and enjoying an extract of the book before reading the full story. However, my search for a book that depicts a version of motherhood that I can identify with will need to continue as this one missed the mark for me.
The book follows Lucy, a mother of two, who is making the transition back to work after maternity leave and struggling to find her post-baby identity. She is also dealing with the challenges of supporting and parenting her son who she suspects may have autistic spectrum disorder.
This book promised to be full of witty humour and sharp observations about life as a working parent but the humour was lost on me. It felt like it was trying too hard to be funny rather than making use of the natural comedy that life with children brings. I also feel increasingly frustrated about the depiction of mothers in so many books who are either stereotypes of a bumbling hot mess or selfish and neglectful. I rarely see the experiences of real mothers I know reflected in books and am quite disappointed this book didn't deliver on this in the way I had hoped.
Thank you to Readers First for the copy of this book.
The book follows Lucy, a mother of two, who is making the transition back to work after maternity leave and struggling to find her post-baby identity. She is also dealing with the challenges of supporting and parenting her son who she suspects may have autistic spectrum disorder.
This book promised to be full of witty humour and sharp observations about life as a working parent but the humour was lost on me. It felt like it was trying too hard to be funny rather than making use of the natural comedy that life with children brings. I also feel increasingly frustrated about the depiction of mothers in so many books who are either stereotypes of a bumbling hot mess or selfish and neglectful. I rarely see the experiences of real mothers I know reflected in books and am quite disappointed this book didn't deliver on this in the way I had hoped.
Thank you to Readers First for the copy of this book.