I feel that both the authors have successfully taken a personal view on a what can be said the most hectic time in a woman's life and turned it into magnificant and compulsive read. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a sense of humour and is looking for a different and slightly unbalanced view on first time motherhood or equally to a nervous prospective mother to be, as this book will shatter all the myths and urban legends associated with the spawning of ones first offspring.

I have been a professional, fully trained and suitably qualified nanny for over 14 years and a first time mother since January of this year and I managed to find plenty of tit-bits to keep me amused and I even heard myself mutter " I didn't know that" on the odd occasion and I most certainly will be keeping hold of this book for any future children I may have.............husband willing of course.

I would recommend this book to any of my friends but if they asked to borrow mine I am afraid I would have to say "go and buy your own your not getting my copy!""

Ruth, first time mother to a bundle of joy named Jack Edward.

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This textbook style book is not for the casual reader. It is well researched and all sources and references are carefully documented - so well so that I was reminded of my A-Level textbooks. The book aims to make you question what is really important to you and what you actually want to achieve rather than what you feel you should achieve or what you feel others expect of you.

The main theme is that women are pressured to excel at everything all at once and that we need to step back and make decisions based on our character type and our true desires as to what we really want to do.

Although I definitely won't be recommending it to any of my friends this is a well written and well researched book that achieves it target of making you question your motives, that is if you can stay awake long enough to read it. As a mum of 2 pre-schoolers who is also trying to work full time and keep on top of the housework I felt there was too much background before the author got to the useful bits - maybe she forgot that the average superwoman doesn't have time for much reading past Bob the Builder and the Disney bedtime stories.

Karly

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