The Best Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly about Motherhood

Motherhood is life-changing. Joyful. Disorientating. Overwhelming. Intense on every level. It's the best, most awful job.

The Best, Most Awful Job brings together twenty bold and brilliant women to speak about motherhood in all its raw, heart-wrenching, gloriously impossible forms.

Overturning assumptions, breaking down myths and shattering stereotypes, these writers challenge our perceptions of what it means to be a mother - and ask you to listen.

Contributors include:

Michelle Adams (Between the Lies)
Javaria Akbar (Vice, Refinery29, Buzzfeed contributor)
Charlene Allcott (More than a Mum)
MiMi Aye (Mandalay: Recipes and Tales from a Burmesse Kitchen)
Jodi Bartle (The London Mother contributor)
Sharmila Chauhan (The Husbands)
Josie George (A Still Life: A Memoir)
Leah Hazard (The Father's Home Birth Handbook)
Joanne Limburg (The Woman Who Thought Too Much)
Katherine May (Wintering)
Susana Moreira Marques (Now and at the Hour of our Death)
Dani McClain (We Live for the We, contributor to the Nation)
Hollie McNish (Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood)
Saima Mir(Guardian contributor, It's Not about the Burqa contributor)
Carolina Alvarado Molk (New Letters contributor)
Emily Morris (My Shitty Twenties)
Jenny Parrott (Oneworld editor)
Huma Qureshi (In Spite of Oceans)
Peggy Riley (Amity & Sorrow)
Michelle Tea (Modern Tarot and Black Wave)
Tiphanie Yanique (Land of Love and Drowning)


About the Author
Katherine May is an author of fiction and memoir whose most recent works have shown a willingness to deal frankly with the more ambiguous aspects of parenting. In The Electricity of Every Living Thing she explored the challenges - and joys - of being an autistic mother, and sparked a debate about the right of mothers to ask for solitude. In the forthcoming Wintering, she looks at the ways in which parenting can lead to periods of isolation and stress. She lives with her husband and son in Whitstable, Kent.