PENGUIN Black Milk: On Motherhood and Writing

It is difficult to review this book. It was very interesting to read about many women writers's lives, like Silvia Plath and Scott Fitzgerald's wife and many others. I highly recommend this book and this wonderful writer.

Brilliant; part memoir, part focussing on female authors' experiences of writing and coping with life's many responsibilities.

Great book! Easy to relate to as a new mother.

I do not recommend this book. It is not what it says on the tin but a strange mixture of how other female writers dealt with womanhood; she does not go into any of these stories but introduces them in 2 pages and then mixes it with "some" of her own experience. She does not share much about her postpartum depression but uses many metaphors that do not make much sense.It is not about post partum depression or even mother-child relationship.

Black Milk is many things: A guide to post-natal depression, an account of how most of the most memorable female writers dealt with the problem of combining motherhood and the life of an author. It also tells how post-natal depression led her to realize that she was 6 different women who had not built bridges amongst each other, until she worked her way through it and embraced all of them and became one. This all sounds most serious, but the six thumbelinas are a sheer delight, hilariously funny, to read and engage with. Highly recommended.