{"product_id":"a-lifes-work-on-becoming-a-mother","title":"A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMulti-award-winning author Rachel Cusk's honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Funny and smart and refreshingly akin to a war diary--sort of Apocalypse Baby Now . . . \u003ci\u003eA Life's Work\u003c\/i\u003e is wholly original and unabashedly true.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother \u003c\/i\u003eis Rachel Cusk's funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood. When it was published it 2001, it divided critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children be taken into care, saying she was unfit to look after them, and Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn education in babies, books, breast-feeding, toddler groups, broken nights, bad advice and never being alone, it is a landmark work, which has provoked acclaim and outrage in equal measure.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947888181479,"sku":"9781250828255","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_3e53d151-daed-4b62-b262-21ea25f0a39c.jpg?v=1775503004","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/a-lifes-work-on-becoming-a-mother","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}