Black Milk | Thalia

@00000400@@00000373@Black Milk@00000155@ is the affecting and beautifully written memoir on motherhood and writing by Turkey's bestselling female writer Elif Shafak, author of @00000373@Honour@00000155@, @00000373@The Gaze@00000155@ and @00000373@The Bastard of Istanbul@00000155@ which was long-listed for the Orange prize.@00000163@@00000400@Postpartum depression affects millions of new mothers every year, and- like most of its victims- Elif Shafak never expected to be one of them. @00000163@@00000400@But after the birth of her first child in 2006, the internationally bestselling Turkish author remembers how 'for the first time my adult life . . . words wouldn't speak to me'. @00000163@@00000400@As her despair finally eased, Shafak sought to resuscitate her writing life by chronicling her own experiences.@00000163@@00000400@In her intimate memoir, she reveals how she struggled to overcome her depression and how literature provided the salvation she so desperately needed.@00000163@@00000400@'An intimate, affecting memoir . . . Her passion for literature is contagious, and her struggle with postpartum depression and writer's block reinforces how carefully all of us must tread. Beautifully rendered, Shafak's @00000373@Black Milk@00000155@ is an epic poem to women everywhere' Colleen Mondor@00000163@

EAN: 9780241966259

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