‘Makes excellent, radical sense’

‘My favourite person on the politics of parenthood. Read it and feel comforted, cheered and galvanized (even when your brain and body are melting).’

‘Exhilarating, infuriating, urgent and human … an excellent journalistic investigation. I think this book is required reading for the child free, as it will help us to understand and support the choices of all parents.’

‘A blazing, brilliant read, combining style and message to powerful effect … compassionate, convincing and funny.’

‘Honest, unflinching and necessary – alleviates parental guilt and might even encourage you to forgive your own!’

‘Holding the Baby is the sanest, most gorgeous thing on capitalism’s poisonous effect on parenthood I’ve ever read. I was hooting and hollering by the manifesto at the end. Because it’s Nell Frizzell it’s funny and brisk and also because it’s Nell Frizzell it’s urgent and incisive. It opens your eyes to a vastly healthier and utterly beautiful way to support babies (and people who used to be babies.) I’m grateful for this book.’

‘I love Nell Frizzell’s writing and I love her spirit. I devoured Holding the Baby, especially the way it combined the colour of a memoir with the intent of a manifesto. Nell has such an original, forceful and also, crucially, very funny take on parenthood in general and motherhood specifically. This is a timely and important book.’