A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother

<b>Multi-award-winning author Rachel Cusk's honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood.</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Selected by <i>The New York Times</i> as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years</b><br /><br /><b>"Funny and smart and refreshingly akin to a war diary--sort of Apocalypse Baby Now . . . <i>A Life's Work</i> is wholly original and unabashedly true." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br /><br /><i>A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother </i>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.<br /><br />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 outrage in equal measure.