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A mother’s job is looking after them, feeding them, keeping them healthy, happy, fulfilling all their mental and psychical needs but what happens to all those caring and sacrificing mothers when they get exhausted, all alone to achieve their best and when the time comes, they find out their best is not a great option for their kids! One part of the book stretches suspension of disbelief to the breaking point, and should have been left out (in my opinion). Because of celebrities telling their stories, we all know that even women who seem to have it all can suffer postpartum depression and can want to lose their mind when a baby is crying and crying, particularly when that mom also has two older sons, one of whom is not an easy child at all. Mothers are often meant to be everything, a mother, a career woman, a wife and taking care to get exercise to keep her figure in pre baby shape.
My instant international bestseller, Anatomy of a Scandal, heralded a shift in genre: part courtroom drama, part portrait of a marriage, part psychological thriller, it draws on my experience as a political correspondent, court reporter, and student at Oxford to explore power, privilege, and consent.
The ending also just did not work for me - while I do enjoy a book that ties things up in the end, I do not like when a serious, life-altering plot suddenly flashes six months in the future and everything is now coming up roses. The characters are well portrayed and most are likeable because like all of us they have frailties although Charlotte is not at all easy to like.
Jess claims that Betsey had not been feeling well after taking a minor tumble at home and that her husband had asked her to bring the baby in out of an abundance of caution. The mothers remained friends ever since, though life's responsibilities - and growing families - limited their social interactions. The central premise being the difficulties of parenting especially the early months when your baby may not settle and nothing you do stops the crying or even worse, the screams. But now that things are becoming less spooky and more Merry, I am ready to pick up some fun Regency romances again and this one sounds like it’s going to be right up my alley! She is a baby who is often inconsolable and requires a lot of holding, nursing and attention and Jess has felt overwhelmed pretty much since her birth.Betsey has suffered a head trauma, yet Jess took over 6 hours to bring her to hospital and is vague about how the injury happened. From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal—now a hit Netflix series—a new thought-provoking novel exploring the complexity of motherhood and all that connects and disconnects us. As the truth begins to emerge, Liz is forced to question everything she thought she knew: about Jess, and about herself. Liz and Jess are united in that they both had very difficult childhoods but the incident with Betsey tests their friendship.
Sarah Vaughan brings to this book the same tension building expertise that made her bestseller Anatomy of a Scandal such a success… Vaughan combines a convincing plot with a perceptive handling of difficult issues around modern female friendships and postnatal depression. However, the woman is not the same woman she knows outside of work – she’s cagey and she finds out her daughter had a fall, but the accident doesn’t account for the injury, so why is she lying? Vaughan provides the reader with an honest and authentic glimpse into the general struggles of motherhood via the perspectives of both women. As a mother, I did feel my support generally stayed with Jess and I didn’t really doubt her, despite the looming questions over her actions.After a few months and 66,000 words, Kremer had a manuscript for The Art of Baking Blind, about motherhood and the impossibility of perfection. Though I didn’t start writing fiction in earnest before I turned 40, I have put pen to paper – or fingers to a keyboard – every day of my career.
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