MARIANNE LEVY 1.30pm Saturday 21 October 2023

Like grief or falling in love, becoming a mother is an experience both ordinary and transformative. But alongside the sleeplessness and wonder, the extent to which it can be profoundly destabilising can come as a shock. DON’T FORGET TO SCREAM is a frank, funny and fearless exploration of what it means to become a mother that confronts the psychological shifts that can overturn a woman’s sense of self. It aims to break the silence around the emotional turmoil that having a child can unleash and asks why motherhood is at once so venerated and so undervalued.

Marianne Levy will be in conversation about her book, considering the real story of being a mother in the modern world. Bold, humane and uncompromising, she writes with dazzling honesty about love and loss, rage and pain, heartache and joy. This is a book that mothers will be glad to have read – and will need everyone else to read, too.

About the author:

Marianne Levy is the author of several children’s books and her journalism has appeared in the Independent, the Guardian and the Financial Times.  She writes features, book and television reviews for the i newspaper, where she is the lead children’s book critic.