She's a miracle woman

the new mum's Delia Smith...Karmel's book is a good, jargon-free read with honest advice on care from pregnancy to your baby's first birthday (there are fab recipes too)

a down-to-earth guide to all aspects of pregnancy, birth and babycare, for new parents during that critical first year...Annabel Karmel is THE leading expert

Beautifully written, revealing and surprising, this is a fascinating guide to the secret life of the skin.

An unexpectedly great adventure.

Imaginatively told... knowledgeable and enthusiastic.

Not since GCSE Biology has my reading material been so scientific. As I approach my late twenties, I've increased my skincare routine tenfold, and now I'm taking it up a notch by learning how our largest organ actually works.The Remarkable Life of the Skin will make you scratch, squirm, inspect and neglect, but what a read it is. If those aforementioned textbooks had been written by the highly entertaining Dr Monty Lyman, I might have paid more attention. Plus, no other Tube read has ever garnered so many double-takes.

Fascinating ... takes us beneath the surface of our largest and least-known organ.

This book's a gem.

An extraordinary insight into the fascinating world of the skin, explaining how it both protects and connects us... [the book] delves into the science behind the skin’s microbiome and explores the history of anti-aging treatments. A must read for all of those curious about why our skin is the first to show our emotions, and how it has the power to both divide and unite communities around the world.

I cried, laughed and cried again. It’s therapeutic to read and bloody amazing. This book will help to raise awareness and help people understand what it’s like to go through this, to see light at the end of the tunnel and know you won’t always feel like this.

I absolutely loved this book. It’s so honest I related to the rawness of it all. There was so much I could identify with.

An important book and I have no doubt it will have a significant impact.

This is a generous, humane, brave gift of a book. Its guts and humour spoke to me loud and clear. I wept for Laura, women I love, and ones I’ve never met, many times throughout. There’s a conspiracy of silence around so many of areas of birth and new motherhood, and Laura is breaking the glass ceiling of it, with glorious honesty, humour and humility. I salute you, Laura - you’re a fucking warrior!

A humblingly honest and human war report from the front lines of mothering, psychosis and recovery: there is no other book like it, and it is so desperately needed.

This moving book was a pleasure to read and I didn't want to put it down. If anyone is going through a similar experience it will make them feel less alone.

Dockrill's raw yet ultimately hopeful account of her experience with postpartum psychosis shines an important light on a rarely discussed experience.

Bold, brave and raw, it must have taken immense courage to write this phenomenal memoir… It’s a tough read, but hugely inspiring…told with a winning dash of humour, and provides desperately needed insight into postnatal mental health

What Have I Done? is heartbreaking and brutal in its honesty, and it is remarkable that Dockrill has managed to wring black comedy out of so much suffering… [the book] offer[s] a hand of solidarity to other women, as well as the assurance that there is a way through

I tore through EXPECTATION at the weekend. Exceptional gorgeously written and reads like a love letter to London. I highly recommend it

I absolutely loved this. What really appealed to me was the depiction of the parents, about legacy and about what the mother's generation leaves for the one that comes after

An intimate and touching portrayal of female friendship that shows it's okay to just be

So fresh, human, kind and relatable

Such a dark, relatable, elegant take on how time alters female friendships: how we become THESE people and our friends become THOSE people. Anyway, I loved it. You probably will, too

A must-read. Will make you want to hug the women in you life

A deftly crafted hymn to the comfort and frustration of female friendship from one of our most gifted contemporary writers

Sensual and evocative, deeply attuned to both the inner lives of the protagonists

The prose is beautiful, the characters achingly real, their flawed decisions enraging and yet somehow still relatable. This wonderful book will resonate with every woman who reads it

A quietly political story that suggests historic battles have left women with new impossible burdens of expectation. A marvellously tangy London novel

Hope beautifully examines how female friendship, its issues entirely relatable, ebbs and flows over time in this wise and engaging read

Hugely absorbing, massively enjoyable

A deftly crafted hymn to the comfort and frustration of female friendship from one of our most gifted contemporary writers

Sensitive, resonant, addictive

A story that resonates with anyone who has tried and failed and tried again as they contemplate that gap between what is possible and what is not.

Compulsive and beautifully told storytelling - an ode to 21st century London and an examination of the pressures of modern society

completely redefines the friendship novel. I am in awe of the way Anna Hope captures what it means to be a woman, right here, right now.

Hope is adept at characterisation. The friends are fantastically well-realised.

The story of 3 college friends, if you're a fan of Sally Rooney, you'll love EXPECTATION

A grown-up, honest take on female camaraderie. Packed with talking points

Fantastic. Beautifully written, sharply observed and saying important things

BOOK OF THE YEAR. It's the book we're all buying for our sisters and besties this Christmas.

Brings to vivid life that particular tension one feels just before middle age, when it begins to become clear that life won’t end up looking exactly they way we thought it would. An outstanding novel

Anna Hope's beautifully observed study of female friendship is a moving account of the collision between aspiration and reality

Fantastically well-realised portrait of female friendship's joys and pains from an exciting new voice in British fiction