NOT SURE WHAT TO THINK

One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else...

At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind.

Instead, she starts gaining things, surprising things that happen one night when her child will not sleep. New appetites, new instincts. And from deep within herself, a new voice...
Initially I though this was going to be another boring attack on the so called Patriarchy that I have never experienced. I am a middle aged man and at no time in my life have I felt privileged, advantaged or any other positive made up word for the life I was leading. I have worked beside women and earned exactly the same as them for the same job. Anyway rant over. This book made me laugh out loud and Cassandra Campbell's performance was good. However the whole experience left me feeling "bleeh!" So I do not know how I felt about this book. And to be honest that is a good thing. I will re listen in the near future and it has made me think about a lot of things. I simply cannot put them into words at the moment.

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Anger and Acceptance

As a mother myself I related a lot to what was happening in the story and I am thinking that at the end we adapt and accept our own made doings and realities 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Imaginative and gripping

Loved it! Loved it! Loved it! Entertaining and stylistically perfect. Brilliant denouement. Woof woof woof woof woof woof aoooooooo..!

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Interesting read for a new mother

Not my usual genre, as a new mother I was worried to read it. A thought provoking book about the wild untamed nature of motherhood and its pressures. Worth the listen.

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Often feels slow, but an interesting story

Some very interesting themes and a more unusual story, which was enjoyable. I found however that it took quite some time for the story to advance and I wanted to get past the more mundane sections to discover more about Nightbitch.

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Weirdly relatable

I enjoyed this book immensely. It presented wanting to raise a child in the best possible way to the pulls of creativity and a career in an original manner. It echoed my personal realisation after giving birth that however civilised we fool ourselves that we are, we are basically animals. It very much reminded me of my time with young children and my need to be creative and run my creative business, the animal instincts that kicked in with motherhood and the realisation that we have to trust our own judgements and act on those instincts rather than follow societies norms. A great book and a must read for creative new mums

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Lights out, b*tch

So many parts of this were so exquisite in their delivery. But this book dragged with fatigue and made us readers feel exhausted and numb at the end.

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Magic realism and dogs - what’s not to like?

A new stay at home mother deals with her loneliness when her husband frequently travels for work and seems to be turning into a dog. Great story telling narrated professionally. Very engaging and highly recommended .

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Astounding

Best book I’ve read in a long time - it will make you so angry you have to put it down, but it will be so brilliant you have to pick it back up

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transformative

I feel recognised as a fellow feral woman - howl, growl and sink your hands into mud and eat raw meat and tear into everything. we are of course, all animals

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