I Don't Know Why She Bothers : Guilt Free Motherhood For Thoroughly Modern Women

In her first non fiction book, Daisy Waugh wages mini-rebellion on the Repressive Sentimentalists who have held the stage for far too long since women ventured into the world beyond their kitchens. Mothering skills are now scrutinised, measured, judged, discussed and disapproved of like never before. The bar is set so preposterously high, it's impossible, at least in the early years, not to feel like a long lost loser: and honestly, mothers only have themselves to blame...Motherly love is ferocious, intense, fathomless, unconditional, and absolute. It is no myth.But the pastel shaded bake-your-own saintliness which has grown up around it is humbug. It's time to add a dusting of reality to the sickly-sweet bake-your-own humbug we've all had to put up with for too long.

It's time to burn the maternity bras and Daisy is the first one at the stake to exclaim, 'Enough! Life is short. Mothers adore their children. But they're people too. And that is more than just a mother.'

Waugh will cover topics including breast pumps, other children, sleepovers, swearing (yours and theirs) and contagious diseases.