Book recommendations for people who find Mother's Day hard

Sad Mum Lady
Unapologetic and frank, Sad Mum Lady navigates the joys of motherhood in ways that will be familiar, hilarious and essential reading for parents and non-parents alike. Savage, true and deeply relatable - finally, a book that...
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A Life’s Work
A Life's Work is Rachel Cusk's funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood. An education in babies, books, breast-feeding, toddler groups, broken nights, bad advice and never being alone, it is a...
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Motherhood
Motherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence, wit and originality that have won Sheila Heti international acclaim.
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Things That Helped: Essays
In this stunning collection, Jessica Friedmann navigates her journey through postpartum depression after the birth of her son. Drawing on critical theory, popular culture, and personal experience, her wide-ranging essays...
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Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
New York Times-bestselling author Lucy Knisley writes about fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood in this emotionally compelling and thought-provoking graphic memoir.
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Things Nobody Knows But Me
Things Nobody Knows But Me is a tender portrait of family and migration, beautifully told. It captures a wonderful sense of bicultural place and life as it weaves between St Albans in suburban Australia and Bosanska...
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The Erratics
This is a memoir about a dysfunctional family, about a mother and her daughters. But make no mistake. This is like no mother-daughter relationship you know.
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Unconditional Love
A raw and powerful memoir of motherhood, autism and filmmaking by Australian director, Jocelyn Moorhouse
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Mother: An Unconventional History
An innovative and intimate history of maternity.
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Educated
An extraordinary memoir about a woman's discovery of education, its transformative power and the price she has to pay for it.
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a...
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The Place on Dalhousie
From the bestselling author of Looking for Alibrandi comes this perfectly crafted novel about families, relationships and the true nature of belonging.
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The Hand That First Held Mine
An unforgettable novel of love and motherhood from bestselling author Maggie O'Farrell
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Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a friend and mom. Then Bernadette disappears.
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