Multi-award-winning author Rachel Cusk-s honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood.
Selected by The New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
-Funny and smart and refreshingly akin to a war diary-sort of Apocalypse Baby Now . . . A Life-s Work is wholly original and unabashedly true.- -The New York Times Book Review
A Life-s Work: On Becoming a Mother is Rachel Cusk-s funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood. When it was published it 2001, it divided critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk-s children be taken into care, saying she was unfit to look after them, and Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself.
An education in babies, books, breast-feeding, toddler groups, broken nights, bad advice and never being alone, it is a landmark work, which has provoked acclaim and o
