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My favourite person on the politics of parenthoodPandoraSykes Exhilarating, infuriating, urgent and humanDaisy Buchanan Ablazing, brilliant read … compassionate, convincing, funny!AmyLiptrotHonest, unflinching and necessarySara PascoeFunny and brisk … urgent and incisiveRob DelaneyA timely and important bookClover StroudIt s time to share the motherload.
A memoir culminating in a manifesto, Holding the Baby sets out to understand why we still treatearly parenthood as an individual slog rather than a shared culturalresponsibility. Tracing her own journey to the nadir of sleeplessnessvia social retreat and murderous rage, Frizzell draws on the latestresearch to- What effect does parenting have on your career?- How can we make childcare affordable and fit for purpose?- If parenting is sohard, why does anyone ever do it more than once?
Funny, reassuring andradically ambitious, Holding the Baby sheds light on the ways in whichwe fail new parents, and offers a rallying crying that we fight for abetter alternative.
