Why am I passionate about this?
I am an astrophysicist. I am a mother. I am an author. I am a cleaner of dishes, a cooker of meals. I am a daughter, a friend on the end of the phone, a reader of bedtime stories, and the one who hugs away the tears and kisses it better. But I am also just me. Emma. And the books I read are always to escape or understand the internal fight I have between identities and the feeling that pursuing one is failing all the others. Lift yourself above it all, breathe, and read yourself into a different world.
Emma's book list on escape from the darn kids
Why did Emma love this book?
Despite the title, I think that any gender can draw something from this book. It is the sequel to her phenomenally successful book āHow to be a womanā, which quite frankly changed my life and made me decide to have children. This new book can be read as a stand-alone and charts Caitlinās thoughts on her late 30s and 40s. It begins with her usual hilarious and irreverent tone, speaking about the pressures put on you by children, parents, work, best friends, basically everything. It suddenly becomes very serious in a way I didnāt expect though, and the message of balance is one that is important for anyone to read in this way. I rarely say this and mean it butā¦ it made me laugh and it made me cry.
1 author picked More Than a Woman as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
'Exceptionally brilliant and powerful' Marina Hyde
'This book is a hilarious memoir, a passionate polemic, and a moving manifesto on how to be a decent person and try, in the face of countless stresses, to live a full open-hearted, joyous life' Sunday Times
A decade ago, Caitlin Moran thought she had it all figured out. Her instant bestseller How to Be a Woman was a game-changing take on feminism, the patriarchy, and the general 'hoo-ha' of becoming a woman. Back then, she firmly believed 'the difficult bit' was over, and her forties were goingā¦