"this moving and unusual memoir also speaks of the pleasure and privilege that leaven the heavy burden of caring..."

"Eliane Glaser deftly juggles the wonder and boredom, the joy and pain and the many profound contradictions that attend modern motherhood...."

"It will not delay you long, but what it leaves will stay with you..."

"Elizabeth Miki Brina’s memoir about coming to terms with her Japanese-American heritage is warm and affecting..."

"In the space available to me here, I cannot hope to capture all that this extraordinarily generous and roomy book contains..."

"beautifully records Coles’s explosive experience of grief..."

"poignant and illuminating..."

"(this) book is superb: well-reasoned arguments with absorbing personal stories..."

"intense, evocative and moving..."

"Cho weaves fractured memoir with Korean history and culture in a raw exploration of mental illness..."

"An outstanding debut from a supremely talented writer..."

"Author pens tear-jerking memoir about her boyfriend who passed away after being diagnosed with terminal cancer..."

"This is a beautiful memoir that shows how the past so often informs the present..."

"Fathers, mothers and grownup children reflect on leaving home and the ‘dance between closeness and distance’ in an outstanding anthology..."

"Campbell traces the faultlines in his own life all the way back to his childhood and examines how they splayed him apart...."

"A must-read for all mums-to-be..."

"compelling..."

"(a) fascinating and readable guide to ageing well..."

"The book shines brightest however when Robinson is looking in the mirror..."

"Holmes has done an admirable job of including women of every sexual preference;..."

"Claypole, who has a stutter, argues that pathological “disfluencies” should instead be understood and – the more radical claim – celebrated. ..."

"a powerful blend of health, self-help and memoir..."