My Child and Other Mistakes: The hilarious and heart-warming motherhood memoir from the comedy star

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A raw, refreshingly honest, and hilariously funny read, this book begins prior to Ellie’s pregnancy during a period of her life when she was questioning whether she wanted children. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. So lovely to read about someone else's experiences and to reflect on the early days of having my first son (it's a bit different second time round as know more what to expect!

From an evolutionary point of view, humans leaving vulnerable infants in strange locations with strange people is surely anything but normal? I’d have probably enjoyed it a lot more had Ellie just shared HER account of motherhood, from pre-conception to present day, where the book ends with her and her husband unsure whether they’d like a second child. TV documentary maker Simon Reeve has dodged bullets on frontlines, hunted with the Bushmen of the Kalahari, dived with manta rays, seals and sharks, survived malaria, walked through minefields, tracked lions on foot, been taught to fish by the President of Moldova, and detained for spying by the KGB. The book blurb promises: “…the honest lowdown on Motherhood and all its grisly delights, asking the questions no one wants to admit to asking themselves – do I want a child? And her voice was so clear throughout the book, never getting lost to ‘I am writing a book I must sound formal and knowledgeable’.Whether you're about to pop, thinking about it or staring at the ruins of your social life and watching CBeebies, this book is essential reading.

Going into the book I did think it might meditate a little more on the decision to have children itself, not just in the beginning stages but throughout. Even at the worst of my initial nursery anxiety, I have always tried to bat away the temptation to be drawn into the ‘mum guilt’ narrative that I despise. Love Island All Stars fans slam Liberty Poole for crying over Mitchel Taylor again despite pair's bitter split: 'They broke up like 10 times! Yes, millions of people like me around the world put their small kids in daycare because we have no other choice but to any of us, do their tears of separation feel normal? You’re not going to learn anything useful such as how to cut up your toddler’s grapes; it’s a reflection of countless women’s experiences that otherwise go ignored, which is, they have a baby and it’s: “Tick!I’ve written the book that didn’t exist when I was pregnant: a very honest account of the whole thing, from trying to get pregnant right through to having a toddler,’ Ellie says.