My Wild and Sleepless Nights

''Raw, elemental and beautiful.'' Telegraph
''This is quite simply the best book about motherhood I have ever read.'' - Eleanor Mills in the Sunday Times

Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative and profoundly insightful book, she captures a sense of what motherhood really feels like - how intense, sensuous, joyful, boring, profound and dark it can be.

My Wild and Sleepless Nights examines what it means to be a mother, and reveals with unflinching honesty the many conflicting emotions that this entails: the joy and the wonder, the loneliness and despair.

MORE PRAISE FOR CLOVER STROUD:
''Clover''s expertise is writing about family life in a way that feels both new and entirely familiar'' - Pandora Sykes
''As tender, blazing, funny and unflinching as the love it describes. I want to give this t