Ina May Gaskin is a...treasure. In this invaluable guide her deep experience and profound insights are updated for a new generation and a new set of technologies. Indispensable!

As a reproductive scientist as well as a medical practitioner, I can assure readers that everything Ina May presents in this book is based on the best scientific evidence. This book should be read by every woman...and by every midwife, nurse, doula, childbirth educator and doctor

Few books have the potential to improve the life of everyone born on the planet. This one does

intuitive and informative

Learn a fresh approach to beauty that will help you to feel more confident and centered in your day-to-day life from the inside out!

Useful, practical and all-encompassing

Beautiful. Made me cry a little. Thank you for such honest, diverse and open stories

Will restore your faith in the world

A collection of more than 80 (...) intimate and heartfelt confessions of what love means... each with a wonderfully expressive colour portrait. Some are illustrated with additional photos by Rousselle, revealing an unerring eye for colour, composition and the unexpected beauty to be found in the mundanity of life, reminiscent of William Eggleston's images... Taken as a whole, these frank statements reveal a diverse account of love in the 21st century

Rare are the books about motherhood, rarer still; the true, the generous, tender, resonant ones. This is that book. I loved it and I love Clover’s voice.

Clover Stroud writes with precise intimacy and fearless honesty. She has somehow found a wholly original way to describe motherhood and, in doing so, truly conveys what it's like, in all its messy, sexy glory.

I have been waiting for a book like this for a long time. Stroud captures the very essence of motherhood in all its contradictions - the brutal loveliness of what it is to mother another, and how the act of doing so breaks us open in ways both wonderful and terrible. There are few other books about motherhood as brave, honest and beautifully written as this one.

I read in one greedy gulp and am still slightly reeling. Extraordinary writing… For mothers and those even vaguely interested in family dynamics it is fascinating.

I ripped through it. Bravo brave Clover Stroud, who writes about “raw and animal” motherhood in a way that make sense to me.

So raw and vivid. Clover is amazing and honest – she tells it.

Brilliant – touching, tender, honest and so true. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything like it. It captures that hopeless sense of how much you love your children and how powerless you feel as they grow up and away from you.

What a beautiful writer Clover Stroud is! This honest look at the high and lows of the roller coaster that is maternal life and love is both joyous and exhilarating.

A compelling read. Clover writes so beautifully and somehow manages to give shape to the mess and madness of motherhood.

Stroud writes with moving, eloquent honesty.

Clover Stroud is a force of nature.

Stroud's honesty as a writer is blistering.

It's the honesty that makes this book so compelling.

I devoured it in one gollop. Clover’s extreme honesty is a rare and lovely thing. A wonderful book.

As tender, blazing, funny and unflinching as the love it describes. At last someone has given a voice to the days spent hiding at the school gates, and scrambling for items of vaguely matching PE kit, and mouldy orange peel down the sofa, and the love that can reduce me to tears on an almost daily basis. I want to give this triumphant book to every mother I know. I want to say to them, Look what we did and we do; and it’s all in here.

Clover’s writing is visceral and brilliant, and motherhood is her topic.

Editor's Choice: It left me both nodding and groaning in recognition as well as reeling with empathy and admiration ... there's no doubting that all the pain and glory of birthing and nurturing new beings is wholeheartedly expressed here.

The ecstasies, the agonies, the passion and the pain. Reading Clover Stroud is a whole body experience.

Addresses what motherhood really feels like... She writes about raising five children with honesty and poignancy, revealing universal truths along the way.

Stroud's warm and honest memoir is the take on parenting we all need. An unflinching look at how to hold on to your own personality when motherhood threatens to submerge it.

Stroud’s clear-eyed look at how wildness and domesticity have entwined in her life is both heartening and inspiring.

Clover Stroud writes with such startling vivacity and honesty about motherhood, this book has its own heartbeat. It crackles with life - its messiness, darkness, and joy. I loved it.

Her descriptions leap off the page... It's the honesty that makes this book so compelling.

Clover Stroud managed to write down all of the mania in one place, making me shed a tear and honk with laughter…she writes so eloquently about all we lose as well as gain through our children.

'Clover Stroud is a wonderful writer of the most colourful prose

My Wild and Sleepless Nights by Clover Stroud is a robust, raw and rare celebration of motherhood that had me laughing out loud one moment and crying the next.

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