Holding The Baby Av Nell Frizzell

<p><b>''My favourite person on the politics of parenthood'' </b>Pandora Sykes<br><br><b>''Exhilarating, infuriating, urgent</b> <b>and human'' </b>Daisy Buchanan<br><br><b>''A blazing, brilliant read ... compassionate, convincing, funny!</b>'' Amy Liptrot<br><br>''<b>Honest, unflinching and necessary'' </b>Sara Pascoe<br><br>''<b>Funny and brisk</b> ... <b>urgent and incisive</b>'' Rob Delaney<br><br>''<b>A timely and important book</b>'' Clover Stroud<br><br><b><i>It''s time to share the motherload.</i></b><br><br>A memoir culminating in a manifesto, <i>Holding the Baby</i> sets out to understand why we still treat early parenthood as an individual slog rather than a shared cultural responsibility. Tracing her own journey to the nadir of sleeplessness via social retreat and murderous rage, Frizzell draws on the latest research to explore:<br><br>- What effect does parenting have on your career?<br><br>- How can we make childcare affordable and fit for purpose?<br><br>- If parenting is so hard, why does anyone ever do it more than once?<br><br>Funny, reassuring and radically ambitious, <i>Holding the Baby </i>sheds light on the ways in which we fail new parents, and offers a rallying crying that we fight for a better alternative.</p>