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Its time to share the motherload

A memoir culminating in a manifesto Holding the Baby sets out to understand why we still treat early parenthood as an individual slog rather than a shared cultural responsibility Tracing her own journey to the nadir of sleeplessness via social retreat and murderous rage Frizzell draws on the latest research to explore

What effect does parenting have on your career

How can we make childcare affordable and fit for purpose

If parenting is so hard why does anyone ever do it more than once

Funny reassuring and radically ambitious Holding the Baby sheds light on the ways in which we fail new parents and offers a rallying crying that we fight for a better alternative

2023 Nell Frizzell P2023 Penguin Audio