This really was one of the best books I've read (listened to) this year. Brilliantly written, powerful, incredibly moving, hilarious and tragic, unique and relatable all at once. This book is everything.

🎧 Audiobook narration : 5/5 I don't think I could've had the same experience with this book if it wasn’t the author herself reading it to me. Everything was just right and overflowing with love, beautiful.

Thank you NetGalley and W.F. Howes Ltd for giving me access to this audiobook for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

A hilarious and at times weepy recount of the early days of motherhood. Rachael recounts the exhaustion fuelled days of her third pregnancy with two young children in tow with all its highs and lows. A loving and honest mother, she talks us through the most rewarding and most difficult days of slaving away as a mum. The thankless tasks, the worry, the loss of all dignity and sometimes sanity, but also the joys and highs. Those precious days feel long, but are all too brief. The reality checks are brutal. Narrated by the author herself, this is a raw listen that will have you laughing and weeping along. #motheringheights #rachaelmoganmcintosh #netgalley #audiobook

Mothering Heights by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
Narrated by Rachael Mogan McIntosh

I received an advance review copy for free thanks to NetGalley and W.F. Howes Ltd and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Blurb

Following Rachael Mogan McIntosh over the year she gave birth to her third child and completed her shapeshift from wild to mild, Mothering Heights is a hilarious, moving celebration of early parenthood.The sudden and total identity theft of motherhood leftRachael with a kind of emotional whiplash. One day, she was wearing a funky outfit in a dark club, and the next she was performing 'Dingle Dangle Scarecrow' for an underwhelmed crowd of toddlers.Rachael adored all three of her tiny dictators and their non-stop comedy shenanigans, but the life of service was a tougher job than she had ever imagined. Through joyous heights and heartbreaking lows, motherhood cracked her heart wide open.

My Opinion

This was a raw, honest book with some highly entertaining moments. This was an easy audiobook to listen to. I pretty much think that the cover sums it up nicely. Given the subject matter, this book was easily relatable.

Rating 4/5

This was just as raw, honest and entertaining as I thought it would be. It’s filled with spot on humour, truths and all the worries that come with parenthood and one many mothers will be able to identify with, nodding along win solidarity. I don’t have any children but I was with her all the way.

The audiobook was fab too and really brought the book to life. It’s a sit back and enjoy kind of audiobook, grab a glass of wine/ coffee/ beverage of choice and relax. I looked forward to my little slice of time with this book and I didn’t want it to end. The author read her own book and BOY did she smash it. Utterly knocked it out the park. The narration was expert level and is up there with my fav audiobooks of all time.

This book made my feel things: all the emotions. I was literally hanging off her every word and I was so invested,

I don’t always feel the urge to reread a book after I’ve just read it but this one has made my list. It’s a sure reread and one I will for sure come back to.

Mothering Heights by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
(Narrated by Rachael Mogan McIntosh)

The book cover already showed us - It’s not easy to be a mother and here’s the book that showing a mixture of feelings being a mother. I was totally related myself to the book!

When I was listening to the book, I kept smiling and some parts I was laughing out loud too. The story setting was relatable and lovely. Easy cozy book!

Also I love the audiobook that was narrated by its own author! Wonderful!

Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for my copy.

Pub date: March 26, 2024

A beautiful insight into the joys and terrors of motherhood. I related with the author so many times throughout the book, from the psd to the spinal problems (mine nowhere near the same severity) I laughed out loud often, in the way that only tiny little developing characters can make you crack up.

It always astounded me that one minute I was dancing on tables and the next I was up to my neck in puke and poo. So relatable.

There were lots of beautiful quotations scattered throughout the book, that also connected me to Rachael, in the way that bookish people hold passages and relate them to life.

I really enjoyed this. Motherhood, the hardest and least/most rewarding job in the world, played out perfectly in the authors writing and narration.

Thank you to NetGalley and Wavesound from W F Howes Ltd for permission to listen to this audiobook in return for an honest review.