'Strong, unflinching' The Sunday Times
'Heartfelt, funny' Observer
'Searing, beautiful' Metro
'A masterpiece' Irish Independent
'Perceptive, honest and necessary' BBC Culture
'Every person – parent or not – ought to read this' i
I devoured this book about motherhood in all its complex, beautiful, ugly reality. It felt like seeing myself reflected on the page for the first time in the better part of a year. Like shouting out and finally hearing an echo in the darkness . . . I gobbled it up like something delicious and forbidden, something selfishly and exclusively mine
Metro
Bursting with urgency, both pocket therapy for parents and a keen appraisal of the desperate bind of contemporary motherhood. Levy tells her story with a light touch, an exhausted heart and bright rage. If you are a mother, read this book to know you are not alone, to find vindication in your fury. If you are not a mother, read it to empathise with the mothers in your life
i
An unvarnished look at the grimy, lonely, frightening, alienating side of pregnancy and motherhood, spanning birth phobia and physical trauma, the erosion of Levy's sense of self and self-worth in the early months and years, and the structural, social, economic bind in which so many mothers find themselves. Don't Forget to Scream seeks to challenge the way we minimalise and deny how hard the ordinary business of mothering is
The Observer
I've never read a book about motherhood that captures so perfectly the impossible complexity of it all . . . universal and important
Irish Independent
Serious thinking about feminism and its intersection with women's health policy, the environment, employment and the philosophy of everyday life
The Times
I recognise it all... Amid all the rage and the wit, Levy writes with great tenderness about her children and the "whole minutes of honeyed joy" she has with them, however hard-won and conflicted that joy might be
Daily Telegraph
To describe this book as honest, brave, empathetic and powerful doesn't do it justice – it is all these things in abundance, but also funny and beautiful
Adam Kay
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Funny, honest, courageous and brilliant . . . I really recommend it
Brian Bilston
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
'Heartfelt, funny' Observer
'Searing, beautiful' Metro
'A masterpiece' Irish Independent
'Perceptive, honest and necessary' BBC Culture
'Every person – parent or not – ought to read this' i
I devoured this book about motherhood in all its complex, beautiful, ugly reality. It felt like seeing myself reflected on the page for the first time in the better part of a year. Like shouting out and finally hearing an echo in the darkness . . . I gobbled it up like something delicious and forbidden, something selfishly and exclusively mine
Metro
Bursting with urgency, both pocket therapy for parents and a keen appraisal of the desperate bind of contemporary motherhood. Levy tells her story with a light touch, an exhausted heart and bright rage. If you are a mother, read this book to know you are not alone, to find vindication in your fury. If you are not a mother, read it to empathise with the mothers in your life
i
An unvarnished look at the grimy, lonely, frightening, alienating side of pregnancy and motherhood, spanning birth phobia and physical trauma, the erosion of Levy's sense of self and self-worth in the early months and years, and the structural, social, economic bind in which so many mothers find themselves. Don't Forget to Scream seeks to challenge the way we minimalise and deny how hard the ordinary business of mothering is
The Observer
I've never read a book about motherhood that captures so perfectly the impossible complexity of it all . . . universal and important
Irish Independent
Serious thinking about feminism and its intersection with women's health policy, the environment, employment and the philosophy of everyday life
The Times
I recognise it all... Amid all the rage and the wit, Levy writes with great tenderness about her children and the "whole minutes of honeyed joy" she has with them, however hard-won and conflicted that joy might be
Daily Telegraph
To describe this book as honest, brave, empathetic and powerful doesn't do it justice – it is all these things in abundance, but also funny and beautiful
Adam Kay
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Funny, honest, courageous and brilliant . . . I really recommend it
Brian Bilston
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
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.
