Don’t Forget To Scream is a stunning, urgent, feminist masterpiece. Many of the essays brought me to tears, and I had to give myself breaks between them to digest their beauty and wisdom and insight before moving onto the next . . . So many mothers will see themselves in this book. And anyone who has ever rolled their eyes while a mother struggles to get a buggy onto the bus needs to read it too. A masterclass in empathy. I'm buying copies for everyone I know.
Holly Bourne
Honest, witty, powerful and moving... An important book brimming with hard-won wisdom.
Robert Webb
I laughed, I cried and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. A brave, moving, brilliantly-written and often funny exploration of what it means to be a mother. I want everyone to read it.
Anna Mazzola
Phenomenal. Words like ‘searing’ and ‘extraordinary’ and ‘blistering’ will be used about this book, and they will not convey one tenth of the strength of it, nor the honesty nor the bravery in writing it.
Emma Flint
Marianne Levy’s Don’t Forget To Scream tells the truth of modern motherhood like nothing else I’ve read. Bold, brave and brilliant, it is also full of humour, joy and warmth. I loved it.
Cathy Rentzenbrink
I loved these sharp, unusual essays about motherhood and cried my way through much of the book. Childbirth, desire, consumerism and marketing of baby stuff, deciding to have a second child, goldfish. Recommended.
Amy Liptrot
Don’t Forget to Scream is funny and heartbreaking – a powerful portrayal of all that makes up motherhood. It feels both intimate and profoundly universal.
Catherine Cho
A staggeringly, ferociously good book – unflinching but humane, real and funny and courageous, and vitally questioning. I wish we lived in a world where it didn’t need to be written.'
Piers Torday
An excellent book . . . elegant, funny, raw and beautiful. It made me angry with myself and the world but it also made laugh. Compulsive reading.
Emma Beddington
A work of painful genius. Exquisitely written, totally honest, insightful, alternately hilarious and moving. I don’t have or want children, and I might not have picked the book up, thinking it’s not ‘for’ me. Which would have been a big mistake. Huge.
Jo Harkin
A beautifully, and at times agonisingly, honest confessional. Moving, funny, poignant and insightful: Marianne’s reflections shine a light on both the joys and lies about parenthood with which we’re all complicit. This is This is Going To Hurt from the other side of the bed.
Dr Keir Shiels
How I wish this book existed when I was a mother of young children. Each essay executes a brilliant swallow-dive from the enervating everyday of parenting into deep waters of profound and unorthodox thought. This is exciting, emboldening writing.
Tanya Shadrick
A brave, unflinching, utterly necessary book. I’m in awe of what it must have taken to write these searing and all too recognisable essays.
Tammy Cohen
A remarkable book, cutting to the quick of what motherhood really feels like – the terror and the rage and the joy of it. The mundane rubs shoulders with the life-changing, the damply humdrum is shot through with calamitous love. I've read so much about motherhood, but I've never read anything as sharply honest as this; mothers will find themselves here.
Shelley Harris
Holly Bourne
Honest, witty, powerful and moving... An important book brimming with hard-won wisdom.
Robert Webb
I laughed, I cried and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. A brave, moving, brilliantly-written and often funny exploration of what it means to be a mother. I want everyone to read it.
Anna Mazzola
Phenomenal. Words like ‘searing’ and ‘extraordinary’ and ‘blistering’ will be used about this book, and they will not convey one tenth of the strength of it, nor the honesty nor the bravery in writing it.
Emma Flint
Marianne Levy’s Don’t Forget To Scream tells the truth of modern motherhood like nothing else I’ve read. Bold, brave and brilliant, it is also full of humour, joy and warmth. I loved it.
Cathy Rentzenbrink
I loved these sharp, unusual essays about motherhood and cried my way through much of the book. Childbirth, desire, consumerism and marketing of baby stuff, deciding to have a second child, goldfish. Recommended.
Amy Liptrot
Don’t Forget to Scream is funny and heartbreaking – a powerful portrayal of all that makes up motherhood. It feels both intimate and profoundly universal.
Catherine Cho
A staggeringly, ferociously good book – unflinching but humane, real and funny and courageous, and vitally questioning. I wish we lived in a world where it didn’t need to be written.'
Piers Torday
An excellent book . . . elegant, funny, raw and beautiful. It made me angry with myself and the world but it also made laugh. Compulsive reading.
Emma Beddington
A work of painful genius. Exquisitely written, totally honest, insightful, alternately hilarious and moving. I don’t have or want children, and I might not have picked the book up, thinking it’s not ‘for’ me. Which would have been a big mistake. Huge.
Jo Harkin
A beautifully, and at times agonisingly, honest confessional. Moving, funny, poignant and insightful: Marianne’s reflections shine a light on both the joys and lies about parenthood with which we’re all complicit. This is This is Going To Hurt from the other side of the bed.
Dr Keir Shiels
How I wish this book existed when I was a mother of young children. Each essay executes a brilliant swallow-dive from the enervating everyday of parenting into deep waters of profound and unorthodox thought. This is exciting, emboldening writing.
Tanya Shadrick
A brave, unflinching, utterly necessary book. I’m in awe of what it must have taken to write these searing and all too recognisable essays.
Tammy Cohen
A remarkable book, cutting to the quick of what motherhood really feels like – the terror and the rage and the joy of it. The mundane rubs shoulders with the life-changing, the damply humdrum is shot through with calamitous love. I've read so much about motherhood, but I've never read anything as sharply honest as this; mothers will find themselves here.
Shelley Harris
Until I had my first child, and this is to my shame, I had little understanding of just how much mothers are hidden, their stories unspoken, even as they cross the street in plain sight.
Like grief or falling in love, becoming a mother is an experience both ordinary and transformative. But alongside the sleeplessness and wonder, the extent to which it can be profoundly destabilising can come as a shock. Almost twenty years on from Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work and Anne Enright's Making Babies comes a frank, funny and fearless exploration of what it means to become a mother that confronts the psychological shifts that can overturn a woman's sense of self. It aims to break the silence around the emotional turmoil that having a child can unleash and asks why motherhood is at once so venerated and so undervalued.
Marianne Levy tells the real story of being a mother in the modern world. Bold, humane and uncompromising, she writes with dazzling honesty about love and loss, rage and pain, heartache and joy.
This is a book that mothers will be glad to have read - and will need everyone else to read, too.
Like grief or falling in love, becoming a mother is an experience both ordinary and transformative. But alongside the sleeplessness and wonder, the extent to which it can be profoundly destabilising can come as a shock. Almost twenty years on from Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work and Anne Enright's Making Babies comes a frank, funny and fearless exploration of what it means to become a mother that confronts the psychological shifts that can overturn a woman's sense of self. It aims to break the silence around the emotional turmoil that having a child can unleash and asks why motherhood is at once so venerated and so undervalued.
Marianne Levy tells the real story of being a mother in the modern world. Bold, humane and uncompromising, she writes with dazzling honesty about love and loss, rage and pain, heartache and joy.
This is a book that mothers will be glad to have read - and will need everyone else to read, too.
