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Ashe Davenport
Unapologetic and frank, Sad Mum Lady navigates the joys of motherhood in ways that will be familiar, hilarious and essential reading for parents and non-parents alike. Savage, true and deeply…
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Melina Marchetta
From the bestselling author of Looking for Alibrandi comes this perfectly crafted novel about families, relationships and the true nature of belonging.
Maggie O'Farrell
An unforgettable novel of love and motherhood from bestselling author Maggie O'Farrell
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Rachel Cusk
A Life’s Work is Rachel Cusk’s funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood. An education in babies, books, breast-feeding, toddler groups, broken nights, bad advice and…
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Sheila Heti
Motherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence, wit and originality that have won Sheila Heti…
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Jeanette Winterson
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette’s version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted…
Jessica Friedmann
In this stunning collection, Jessica Friedmann navigates her journey through postpartum depression after the birth of her son. Drawing on critical theory, popular culture, and personal experience, her wide-ranging essays…
Eliza Henry-Jones,Eliza Henry-Jones
A moving, sweet and uplifting novel of love, grief and the heartache of letting go, from a wonderful new Australian author. Cate Carlton has recently died, yet she is able…
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Maria Semple
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow mothers in Seattle, she’s a disgrace; and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a friend and mom…
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Amra Pajalic
Things Nobody Knows But Me is a tender portrait of family and migration, beautifully told. It captures a wonderful sense of bicultural place and life as it weaves between St…
Tara Westover
An extraordinary memoir about a woman’s discovery of education, its transformative power and the price she has to pay for it.
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Lucy Knisley
New York Times-bestselling author Lucy Knisley writes about fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood in this emotionally compelling and thought-provoking graphic memoir.
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Jocelyn Moorhouse
A raw and powerful memoir of motherhood, autism and filmmaking by Australian director, Jocelyn Moorhouse
Vicki Laveau-Harvie
This is a memoir about a dysfunctional family, about a mother and her daughters. But make no mistake. This is like no mother-daughter relationship you know.
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