I Am Not Your Baby Mother, Candice Brathwaite
I Am Not Your Baby Mother, Candice Brathwaite
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I Am Not Your Baby Mother
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Author: Candice Brathwaite

Narrator: Candice Brathwaite

Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Quercus

Published: 05/28/2020

Synopsis

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.

(P)2020 Quercus Editions Limited

About Candice Brathwaite

Candice Brathwaite is a prominent British author and advocate who has made a significant impact with her work on motherhood and diversity. Her Sunday Times bestselling book I Am Not Your Baby Mother passionately addressed the unique experiences of Black British mothers. Her writing has also appeared in the Guardian, Harper's Bazaar, Stylist, the Huffington Post and Grazia. Candice is a presenter on Lorraine and Steph's Packed Lunch, and the co-host of the smash hit podcast, 'Closet Confessions', which has amassed 2.5 million downloads and several sell-out live shows in its first year of production. Her holistic and exuberant online content, which spans from heartfelt wisdom to highly anticipated fashion videos, has gained her a dedicated audience of 290k+ Instagram followers and 370+ on TikTok. Through her writing and public presence, Candice actively works to challenge norms and promote positive change in the realm of diversity and representation.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Theresa on June 06, 2020

This book is a must read. The writing is brilliant and intelligent, and it's clear that Candice Braithwaite is a very talented writer and orator. To be clear on my privellege. I am a white woman living in a predominantly white town in Scotland with no children. I work in the NHS as a midwife and am......more

Goodreads review by Laura on June 14, 2020

10/10 : As a white mother, raising a white son, never has my privilege been so blatant. This book is breathtaking, brilliant & brutal. I urge you to read it. How is it fair that I’ve simply not had to think about the connotations to race when naming my son? I’ve not had to worry when his first racis......more

Goodreads review by Carly on October 22, 2020

CW: sexual assault, medical trauma, racism I had come across Candice Braithwaite on Instagram in June this year, when her posts on Black Loves Matter were shared into my feed. I’ve loved her honesty and vibrancy on Instagram, and her book didn’t disappoint. It’s a memoir about growing up in Britain i......more

Goodreads review by BookOfCinz on September 30, 2021

I Am Not Your Baby Mother was written by Candice Brathwaite at a time when Black British women did not have the safe space to talk about being mothers and mothering their children. Brathwaite said this book is part memoir and part manifesto and when you read it you will find out why. I decided to......more

Goodreads review by Sara on June 27, 2020

The chapter that stood out to me the most was chapter 8, which focuses on what happens when Braithwaite finds out her daughter experienced racism by a white classmate for the first time. The whole experience was devastating and incredibly frustrating to read. What I liked was that she refused to assu......more

Quotes

An essential exploration of the realities of black motherhood in the UK Observer

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 Red magazine

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. Pandora Sykes

Written in her brilliantly witty manner, this book is every black British woman's motherhood manual Refinery 29

Humorous but unflinching, every mother, everywhere, should read this book OK 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 Stella Magazine

Searing Dolly Alderton

Remarkable Lorraine Kelly

One of 2020's must-reads for all mums, new or experienced Culture Whisper

An observant and timely guide Evening Standard

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