Bøger af Emma Brockes

Parenting in each other's general direction?Brockes navigates these decisions against a background of uninvited opinion, scolding, and the general hysteria that always accompanies a woman's decision to have (or not have) children.

Emma Brockes is thirty-seven, lives alone, and wants children. And that's just the beginning - there are a million choices to make when taking the untraditional route to motherhood. With generous heart and humour, Panic & Joy examines essential questions about motherhood and the modern family.

Film musicals: you either love them or they make you want to kill yourself slowly with plastic cutlery. Nothing has the power to lift your heart or turn your stomach like Howard Keel in fake sideburns singing 'Bless Your Beautiful Hide' or Julie Andrews singing... well, just about anything.