Multi-award-winning author Rachel Cusk \'s honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood.
About author(s): Rachel Cusk is the author of Second Place ; the trilogy Outline , Transit , Kudos ; the essay collection Coventry ; the memoirs A Life\'s Work , The Last Supper , and Aftermath ; and several other novels: Saving Agnes (winner of the Whitbread Award), The Temporary , The Country Life (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), The Lucky Ones , In the Fold , Arlington Park , and The Bradshaw Variations ..
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.
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.
When it was published it 2001, it divided critics and readers.
A Life\'s Work is wholly original and unabashedly true." -- The New York Times Book Review A Life\'s Work: On Becoming a Mother is Rachel Cusk \'s funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood. . .
Selected by The New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years "Funny and smart and refreshingly akin to a war diary--sort of Apocalypse Baby Now .
Multi-award-winning author Rachel Cusk \'s honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood
