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serendipitysbooks's review
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy
ellabooray's review
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Life changing book. Incredibly thorough and well written. I'll be returning to this again.
phillysaurus's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
3.75
I would advise you not to read this in your third trimester.
This was beautifully written, very interesting and thought provoking, and brings to light so many important aspects of becoming a mother. HOWEVER, Jones presents her experience as universal, which it isn’t (I’ve not experienced much of what she describes from the NHS in pregnancy), and her narrative suffers from the glaring absence of the role of her partner. I know it’s a book about MATrescence, but the support a mother gets from her network and the sodding baby’s coparent is vital. A mother doesn’t exist (and shouldn’t exist) in isolation, but much of this novel reads as if Jones were a single parent.
This was beautifully written, very interesting and thought provoking, and brings to light so many important aspects of becoming a mother. HOWEVER, Jones presents her experience as universal, which it isn’t (I’ve not experienced much of what she describes from the NHS in pregnancy), and her narrative suffers from the glaring absence of the role of her partner. I know it’s a book about MATrescence, but the support a mother gets from her network and the sodding baby’s coparent is vital. A mother doesn’t exist (and shouldn’t exist) in isolation, but much of this novel reads as if Jones were a single parent.
annrhub's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
ichbinclamp's review against another edition
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0