Imprint: Square Peg
Published: 05/09/2019
ISBN: 9781910931967
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 222mm x 29mm x 144mm
Weight: 444g
RRP: £14.99
'Hysterical, important, moving, wonderful' Sara Pascoe
I'm Jen Brister, stand-up comedian, middle-aged adolescent and, more recently, a mum. But not that mum – I'm the other one. Confused? Let’s back up a bit. Two years ago, my partner (a woman – we're not solicitors) gave birth to twins. Yes. Yes. Already there’s a lot to take in here: gay mums, twins, solicitors… (I know! Believe me, I’m still reeling myself.)
Like every new parent, I had absolutely no clue what I was doing. Add ‘gay’ and ‘non-biological’ to the mix and what do you get? Not a weird box of detergent, but a panicked beige lesbian desperately googling, ‘Will my babies love me?’ at 3 a.m.
This is a book for any parent who feels they don’t fit the mould of a traditional 2.4 family. Stand-up comedian Jen Brister takes a very funny, very honest look at life as a parent: from IVF awfulness to crying over the pages of sleep training manuals. As ‘the other mother’ she has the perfect vantage point for us to laugh and cry alongside her.
Imprint: Square Peg
Published: 05/09/2019
ISBN: 9781910931967
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 222mm x 29mm x 144mm
Weight: 444g
RRP: £14.99
I love Jen Brister. She is a like mind and damned funny. You’ll find the pages of this book brimming with rich and wonderful proof of all of this ... and more
Jen is one of the funniest comedians I’ve ever seen and her book is predictably hysterical. It’s also moving, important and wonderful
Jen Brister is bloody funny both on stage and in this brilliant book
Fresh, heartwarming and very, very wise. The funniest and most refreshingly honest account of being a parent that I've ever read
The Other Mother, is a side-splittingly honest look at the grim realities of same-sex parenting