My Wild and Sleepless Nights: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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At seven hours long, the audiobook was on the shorter side and I could happily have listened to another two hours at least. And then Clover remembers that we are actually here to discuss her appearance tomorrow at the Thame Arts and Literature Festival (TAL) where she is being interviewed by the lovely Kerry Potter, and perks up.

Clover Stroud's brilliantly unvarnished memoir finds the heroism and poetry in having kids ... Much of this book ..reads like a nature memoir, full of landscape both external and internal ... How brilliant for someone to write about the blankness as well as the beauty. -- Nell Frizzell * Telegraph * I have been waiting for a book like this for a long time. Stroud captures the very essence of motherhood in all its contradictions - the brutal loveliness of what it is to mother another, and how the act of doing so breaks us open in ways both wonderful and terrible. There are few other books about motherhood as brave, honest and beautifully written as this one. Sarah Langford, author of In Your Defence I hope my children and anyone who reads it realises that this book only comes from a place of absolute love” Having grown up with three sisters, and later a step-brother and sister, I adored reading about the mayhem and madness so synonymous with big families, and was gripped by the nostalgia and fondness with which Clover so brilliantly writes about her ever-growing and changing family. Rare are the books about motherhood, rarer still; the true, the generous, tender, resonant ones. This is that book. I loved it and I love Clover’s voice. Sophie DahlHotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. As tender, blazing, funny and unflinching as the love it describes. I want to give this triumphant book to every mother I know’– Rachel Joyce

A compelling read. Clover writes so beautifully and somehow manages to give shape to the mess and madness of motherhood. Lucy Atkins I devoured it in one gollop. Clover's extreme honesty is a rare and lovely thing. A wonderful book. * Julie Myerson *Stroud’s clear-eyed look at how wildness and domesticity have entwined in her life is both heartening and inspiring. Olivia Laing

This is quite simply the best book about motherhood I have ever read.' - Eleanor Mills in the Sunday TimesThe best evocation of the all-consuming, self-eroding reality of motherhood, while also being luminous with love. Emma Beddington, The Sunday Times