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Like grief or falling in love, becoming a mother is an experience both ordinary and transformative—one that not only turns your world upside-down, but your inner self, too. In this frank, funny and fearless memoir, Marianne Levy writes with heart-wrenching honesty about love and loss, rage and pain, fear and joy. She breaks the silence around the emotional turmoil of raising a child and asks why motherhood is at once so venerated and so undervalued. Here is the real story of being a mother in the modern world, voicing the unspoken truths that everyone needs to hear.

Dear Everybody, I’m an incredibly famous film star! I get to sign autographs and be in magazines and I have my very own chaperone. Hooray! But I am also a very serious person. I love nature. I have a bag decorated with butterflies. Did you know that butterflies turn into caterpillars? Amazingly amazing! And that’s why I’m helping to save a nature reserve. I’ve never saved anything before, but it can’t be very hard...can it?

Katie Cox is used to going unnoticed by her mum, her dad, even her best friend. But when a video of her singing in her bedroom goes viral, she becomes a superstar overnight. As the views skyrocket and a recording contract beckons, the real world starts to feel very far away. And now Katie's riding high on her newfound fame. But the higher she goes, the further there is to fall.