The dazzling part memoir, part manifesto from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Animals and Adults
'Beautiful, hilarious, clever . . . I loved this book' - CLOVER STROUD
'Totally relatable . . . had me laughing and crying in equal measures' - CHRISTIE WATSON
'Brilliant' - NIKESH SHUKLA
'This book will make new mums feel accompanied, which is the most sacred thing' - JENN ASHWORTH
"How did it come to this? I am tough, I am smart, I have lived alone. Now I am cracking, right down the middle. . . "
Six months after the birth of her son, Emma Jane Unsworth finds herself in the eye of a storm.
Nothing - from pregnancy to birth and beyond - has gone as she expected. A birth plan? It might as well have been a rough draft! Furious and exhausted, her life is the complete opposite of what it used to be. She's swapped all night benders for grazed labia and Whac-a-Moling haemorrhoids. How did she end up here?
In this brave and hilarious account of postnatal depression, Emma tells her story of de