My Wild and Sleepless Nights (Paperback)

'The best evocation of the all-consuming, self-eroding reality of motherhood, while also being luminous with love.' - The Sunday Times 

'Brilliant motherhood memoir...Clover Stroud is one of the very best writers on the light and dark of motherhood and, if you enjoyed her debut The Wild Other, you'll love this.' - Good Housekeeping

'Clover Stroud charts the highs and lows of motherhood in all their deep, dark glory.' - Sarra Manning, RED Magazine

'Clover Stroud writes with precise intimacy and fearless honesty. She has somehow found a wholly original way to describe motherhood and, in doing so, truly conveys what it's like, in all its messy, sexy glory.' - Hadley Freeman

'Rare are the books about motherhood, rarer still; the true, the generous, tender, resonant ones. This is that book. I loved it and I love Clover's voice.' - Sophie Dahl

'I have been waiting for a book like this for a long time. Stroud captures the very essence of motherhood in all its contradictions - the brutal loveliness of what it is to mother another, and how the act of doing so breaks us open in ways both wonderful and terrible. There are few other books about motherhood as brave, honest and beautifully written as this one.' - Sarah Langford, author of In Your Defence

'As tender, blazing, funny and unflinching as the love it describes. At last someone has given a voice to the days spent hiding at the school gates, and scrambling for items of vaguely matching PE kit, and mouldy orange peel down the sofa, and the love that can reduce me to tears on an almost daily basis. I want to give this triumphant book to every mother I know. I want to say to them, Look what we did and we do; and it's all in here.' - Rachel Joyce

'Clover's writing is visceral and brilliant, and motherhood is her topic.' - India Knight

'The ecstasies, the agonies, the passion and the pain. Reading Clover Stroud is a whole body experience.' - Polly Samson