The Bad Mother

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Esther Walker. The Bad Mother

THE BAD MOTHER. Esther Walker

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Dedication

Intro

Sleep

Eat

Play

Routine

Sick

Help

Sun

Us

Two

Poo

Motherfucker

Three?

Light

Temper

You

Epilogue

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

About the Publisher

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For Mamgu

Cover

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Exhaustion is often accompanied by hyperactivity, jitteriness and hysteria, and a reluctance to nap during the day. When you are being woken up and kept awake at night, you feel a resentment about going to sleep during the day. All you are doing, you start thinking, is fuelling yourself to do this awful, boring thing at night. If you have an hour to yourself during the day, going to sleep seems like such a waste when you could be poking about on the internet or sorting out your diary or tending to a small, terrifying and now critical pile of admin.

You grind through the day, not stopping because if you stop you start to think about just how tired you really are. And it becomes harder to carry on. In my mind’s eye, when I am very tired, I see myself pitched forward at an angle, bowling through my day as if walking against a very stiff wind.

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