How to (Really) Be a Mother - Softcover

Emily Hourican

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0717158489 ISBN 13: 9780717158485

Publisher: Gill & MacMillan, Limited, 2014

Synopsis

There are many books on how to be a mother, but do they ever tell us how it really is? Thankfully, Emily Hourican is about to, via a series of hilarious reminiscences and profound observations. Now on baby number 3, Emily has started to wise up to the prettily packaged ideals that mothers are drip-fed on a daily basis. So get ready to reclaim motherhood in all its messiness. Perfection is so over.

About this title

About the Author:

Emily Hourican is a journalist and editor. She writes regularly for the Sunday Independent and Image magazine and contributes to Conde Nast Traveller and Woman & Home in the UK. She was founding editor of The Dubliner magazine. She has three children and lives in Dublin.

Review:

"It's funny and smart, and full of the sort of brutal honesty that will make you feel good about yourself as a mother. In fact, it's the perfect present for any friends who've just had babies; they'll thank you for a gift that is a welcome break from all the po-facedness in any other parenting manual they've received." Sunday Independent "At last, modern mothers everywhere can breathe a collective sigh of relief." Bord Gais Energy Book Club "Motherhood is a lifetime contract; this book will start you on the road." Sunday Independent "Emily Hourican is frighteningly honest about motherhood in her hilarious new book 'How to (Really) Be a Mother'. Hourican approaches the very touchy subject of parenting with a humorous angle and mums will be able to relate to a lot of what is written." Mummy Pages "Emily Hourican tells the truth about being a modern mum." Woman's Way "How To Really Be A Mother is hilarious. I identified with a lot. Wish you'd written it 14 years ago! --Rachel Allen

Provides some much-needed relief from the mythology of ideal motherhood. . . Hourican is a sassy, smart compantion self-deprecating, yet encouraging. --Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Gill & MacMillan, Limited
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0717158489
• ISBN 13: 9780717158485
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238