About the Book: Mum Face: the Memoir of a Woman Who Gained a Baby and Lost Her
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In this wry, resonant and darkly funny memoir, journalist Grace Timothy
explores a question most women will face at some point: if becoming a mother
means the person you were before has gone; who exactly is left in its place?
Best described as The Wrong Knickers for mums, in Mum Face Grace explores
motherhood as an issue of identity.
What begins as shock and then denial of how your life will change has to become
acceptance when youre too big to walk/waddle/work; youre fully repurposed