Victoria Young
Journalist and writer
Books
I'm really thrilled that my first book, 'Things I Wish I’d Known; Women Tell The Truth About Motherhood' , is out now, published by Icon Books.
It's a sort of antidote to all the 'How to' books about motherhood out there; the book I really wanted to read after I had my son, four years ago, when I wanted to hear from all the women whose writing I love about what their experience of motherhood was like. But all I could find was books telling me how to be a parent!
So...three years later I'm excited to say, here it is: a no-holds-barred collection of essays by 20 fantastic writers* who reveal the truth of what it’s really like to be a mother, based on their experience - rather than how things 'should' be, each with a completely different take, writing about everything from labour to the breastapo, twins to single parenthood, weaning to post-birth sex and loads of other stuff in between. If that tickles your fancy, you can order it here.
*Adele Parks, Cathy Kelly, Rachel Johnson, Emma Freud, Esther Walker, Daisy Garnett, Lucy Porter, Jenny Colgan, Clover Stroud, Bryony Gordon, Nicci Gerard, Alix Walker, Tiffanie Darke, Kathy Lette, Shobna Gulati, Afsaneh Knight, Christina Hopkinson, Anne Marie Scanlon, Anna Moore - with a foreword by Justine Roberts and an introduction by me!