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A Life's Work


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Multi-award-winning author Rachel Cusk's honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood.

A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother is Rachel Cusk's funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood.

When it was published in 2001, it divided critics and readers.

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.

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