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I Am Not Your Baby Mother

On sale

28th May 2020

Price: £10.99

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Selected: Digital (deliver electronic) / ISBN-13: 9781529406269

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*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (May 2020)*

‘Really good … accessible, sometimes shocking, honest, and feels written from the heart’ – Bernardine Evaristo

‘I gobbled it in one weekend and encourage everyone – mother, or otherwise – to do the same’ – Pandora Sykes

‘Remarkable’ – Lorraine Kelly

‘Searing’ – Dolly Alderton

‘I absolutely loved I Am Not Your Baby Mother‘ – Giovanna Fletcher

‘Brilliant’ – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

‘An essential exploration of the realities of black motherhood in the UK’ – Observer

‘Urgent part-memoir, part-manifesto about black motherhood’ – Red

‘[An] original and much-needed guide to navigating black motherhood’ – Cosmopolitan

‘The woman bringing a fresh perspective to the mumfluencer world’ – Grazia

‘Every mother, everywhere, should read this book’OK Magazine

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It’s about time we made motherhood more diverse…

When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience bore little resemblance to the glossy magazine photos of women in horizontal stripe tops and the pinned discussions on mumsnet about what pushchair to buy. Leafing through the piles of prenatal paraphernalia, she found herself wondering: “Where are all the black mothers?”.

Candice started blogging about motherhood in 2016 after making the simple but powerful observation that the way motherhood is portrayed in the British media is wholly unrepresentative of our society at large.

The result is this thought-provoking, urgent and inspirational guide to life as a black mother. It explores the various stages in between pregnancy and waving your child off at the gates of primary school, while facing hurdles such as white privilege, racial micro-aggression and unconscious bias at every point. Candice does so with her trademark sense of humour and refreshing straight-talking, and the result is a call-to-arms that will allow mums like her to take control, scrapping the parenting rulebook to mother their own way.

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Reviews

Lighthouse Books
A powerful challenge to narrow mainstream depictions of motherhood ... this is a book that will undoubtedly change the way we talk about motherhood in the UK
i news
Important and necessary
Red magazine
Blogger Candice Brathwaite is known for her beautifully constructed and refreshingly straight-talking Instagram captions, so we can't wait to read her urgent part-memoir, part-manifesto about black motherhood
Refinery 29
Written in her brilliantly witty manner, this book is every black British woman's motherhood manual
OK Magazine
Humorous but unflinching, every mother, everywhere, should read this book
Pandora Sykes
This book is about so much more than paid partnerships and a square-by-square existence. It is an energetic decimation of the narrow, middle-class white lens through which we culturally speak about motherhood; a humorous and sensitive navigation of the nuances within race (Candice, as a black British woman and her husband, as a Nigerian man); and a searing commentary, through the motif of a Bugaboo pushchair, on how class and race intersect. I gobbled it in one weekend and encourage everyone - mother, or otherwise - to do the same.
Stella Magazine
She's the straight-talking social-media star who hates the word 'influencer', refuses to 'dress small' and is on a mission to portray a vision of motherhood inclusive of race and class
Dolly Alderton
Searing
Lorraine Kelly
Remarkable
Culture Whisper
One of 2020's must-reads for all mums, new or experienced
Evening Standard
An observant and timely guide
Giovanna Fletcher
I absolutely loved I Am Not Your Baby Mother
Closer
A brilliantly observed look at life as a black mother
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Brilliant
Women’s Health Magazine
Packed with insight for all women, whatever your race or parental status
Mother and Baby Magazine
The must-read book of the summer
Good Housekeeping
Brilliant ... as much an astoundingly good read as it is an essential one
Red magazine
A game-changing guide to Black motherhood
Elizabeth Morris, Crib Notes
To call Candice Brathwaite a mummy-blogger is to underplay the ground-breaking role she has played in challenging the white-washed, breton-striped representations of motherhood we see in the media and on Instagram.
Bernardine Evaristo
Really good ... accessible, sometimes shocking, honest, and feels written from the heart
Grazia
Thought-provoking
Observer
An essential exploration of the realities of black motherhood in the UK
Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters
An enormously important book about motherhood and systemic racism [...] compellingly written, it's alive with a fury it is impossible not to feel when reading
Nadiya Hussain
This book is needed for the voiceless
the Scotsman
Frank and funny