These autobiographical writings about motherhood penned by women from Wales create a unique collection that is in turns funny, shocking, and tender. It covers the whole spectrum of what it means to be a mother—from getting pregnant to the empty-nest syndrome.
Lindsay Ashford is a British crime novelist and journalist, and the originator of the Jane Austen Short Story Award. She is the author of Death Studies, Frozen; The Killer Inside; The Rubber Woman; Strange Blood, which was short-listed for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award; and Strange Days Indeed: Autobiographical Stories About Motherhood by Women. Rebecca Tope is the author of three popular murder mystery series and a ghost writer of the novels based on the ITV series Rosemary and Thyme.