Holding the Baby - Milk, sweat and tears from the frontline of motherhood

It''s time to share the motherload. A memoir culminating in a manifesto, Holding the Baby sets out to understand why we still treat early parenthood as an individual slog rather than a shared cultural responsibility. Tracing her own journey to the nadir of sleeplessness via social retreat and murderous rage, Frizzell draws on the latest research to explore: - What effect does parenting have on your career? - How can we make childcare affordable and fit for purpose? - If parenting is so hard, why does anyone ever do it more than once? Funny, reassuring and radically ambitious, Holding the Baby sheds light on the ways in which we fail new parents, and offers a rallying crying that we fight for a better alternative.

Product details

• Authors: Nell Frizzell, FRIZZELL NELL
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2023
• EAN: 9781787635944
• ISBN: 978-1-78763-594-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 223 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dating, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Memoirs, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage, Sociology: family & relationships, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Women’s health, Parenting: advice and issues, Feminism and feminist theory, Sociology: family and relationships, Autobiography: writers, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Health systems and services, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Health Care