9 Top biography books like My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story by Clover Stroud

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My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

By: Clover Stroud

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'The best evocation of the all-consuming, self-eroding reality of motherhood, while also being lumi…

If you liked the biography plot in My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story by Clover Stroud , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood

By: Hollie McNish

4.42

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A memoir of parenthood by poet Hollie McNish. There were many things that Hollie McNish didn't k… read more

Similar categories in Hollie McNish's Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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2. Girls in Love (Girls, #1)

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

Magda is tall and glamorous, Nadine is willowy and 'gothic' and Ellie, well, Ellie thinks she is un… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Wilson's Girls in Love (Girls, #1) book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • contemporary
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3. The Tent, the Bucket and Me

By: Emma Kennedy

3.77

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Growing up in the Seventies, we were on the brink of the modern age. But despite a brave new world … read more

Similar categories in Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

4. Your Baby Week by Week: The Ultimate Guide to Caring for Your New Baby

By: Simone Cave

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Guides abound on what to expect during each week of pregnancy, but when the baby finally arrives ma… read more

Similar categories in Simone Cave's Your Baby Week by Week: The Ultimate Guide to Caring for Your New Baby book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

5. You Be Mother

By: Meg Mason

4.31

Format: 66 pages, ebook

What do you do, when you find the perfect family, and it's not yours? A charming, funny and irresis… read more

Similar categories in Meg Mason's You Be Mother book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

6. The Gentle Sleep Book: A Guide for calm babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers

By: Sarah Ockwell-Smith

3.06

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

A large percentage of parents find their young child's sleep patterns - or lack of - challenging. T… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ockwell-Smith's The Gentle Sleep Book: A Guide for calm babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

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7. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

By: Nina Stibbe

3.66

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more

Similar categories in Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • contemporary
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8. Darling

By: India Knight

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for grea… read more

Similar categories in India Knight's Darling book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • family
  • contemporary
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9. All My Mothers

By: Joanna Glen

4.44

Format: 400 pages, ebook

From the author of the Costa shortlisted debut, The Other Half of Augusta Hope, comes the story of … read more

Similar categories in Joanna Glen's All My Mothers book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • family
  • contemporary
"What the hell is a man if he can’t cry for his son?"

-Joanna Glen, All My Mothers

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10. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

By: Lucy Jones

4.54

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Jones's Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • memoir
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11. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • parenting
  • family
  • contemporary
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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12. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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13. MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery

By: Paloma Faith

4.06

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

'The most raw, funny and liberating look at what it is to be a woman.' – FEARNE COTTON'Gritty, funn… read more

Similar categories in Paloma Faith's MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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14. The Mess We’re In

By: Annie Macmanus

3.40

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, la… read more

Similar categories in Annie Macmanus's The Mess We’re In book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

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15. This Is Not A Pity Memoir

By: Abi Morgan

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What happens when your partner of twenty years suddenly believes you’re nothing but a stranger?  Wh… read more

Similar categories in Abi Morgan's This Is Not A Pity Memoir book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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16. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

By: Alice Vincent

3.84

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more

Similar categories in Alice Vincent's Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. Everyone Is Still Alive

By: Cathy Rentzenbrink

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

It is summer on Magnolia Road when Juliet moves into her late mother's house with her husband Liam … read more

Similar categories in Cathy Rentzenbrink's Everyone Is Still Alive book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • family
  • contemporary
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18. Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For

By: Ella Risbridger

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Recipes that reveal the life-changing happiness of cooking There are lots of ways to start a sto… read more

Similar categories in Ella Risbridger's Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"There’s also some really solid kneading to be done here, which is the best cure for a troubled heart: hands in the dough, window wide, something jaunty on the radio."

-Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For

"And I was scared, and I was stuck. It was ridiculous, laughable: sometimes anxiety is. Often it is. It doesn't make it any less real, or any less difficult to manage."

-Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For

"In my life I have had several moments of total clarity. Not revelations, necessarily, but times and places where I have, fleetingly, felt that everything in the world was more real than usual, and th…"

-Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For

"I love recipes like this, reading them and making them. There’s something brilliant about a recipe that doesn’t ask too much of you; a recipe, in fact, where getting it exactly right would be exactly…"

-Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For

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19. Moral Injuries

By: Christie Watson

3.56

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A literary thriller following three best friends since medical school and the twenty-five-year-old … read more

Similar categories in Christie Watson's Moral Injuries book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

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20. Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl

By: Sonia Henry

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A memoir The bestselling author of Going Under recounts her real-life journey from hard-partying… read more

Similar categories in Sonia Henry's Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. Notes To Self

By: Emilie Pine

4.10

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

`The person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis' In this vivid and… read more

Similar categories in Emilie Pine's Notes To Self book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • contemporary
"He triat ser feliç. Aquesta felicitat no és perfecta ni exempta de dolor. A dins hi porta un dol. Però justament per això és més intensa."

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

"I like that I have ten things on the go, all at once. I like that I'm always planning for the next thing. I like that I bring a high energy to my life, that I see it as a challenge. I like that my fa…"

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

"I am fearful and hopeful and shameful. I worry that I am empty, or that I am full of the wrong things. I worry that I am disappearing, eroding, failing. I do not know what to do with all these feelin…"

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

"For three decades I have lived within a silence that declares periods too embarrassing, too unwanted, too female to talk about out loud. I have done this for so long that I almost no longer notice it…"

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

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22. The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

By: Philippa Perry

3.90

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Life is all about relationships and the quality of those connections, whether that's with family, p… read more

Similar categories in Philippa Perry's The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t) book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"Manche Menschen verwechseln Liebe mit etwas, das einen überkommt, dabei ist sie viel mehr. Liebe äußert sich in dem, was wir tun. Liebe ist nicht passiv."

-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

"Wir alle sind verletzliche Wesen, die lernen müssen, dass man stärker ist, wenn man zu seiner Verletzlichkeit steht, als wenn sich hinter einer Fassade falscher Stärke versteckt."

-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

"Be mindful of the language you use with others. A good way to start is to speak in 'I' statements, which define your own experience, and not 'you' statements, which are a judgement on the other person"

-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

"Manchmal bedeutet authentisch zu sein, dass wir nicht so nett sind, wie wir gern wären. Wenn Ihnen das ein schlechtes Gewissen bereitet, denken Sie daran: Ein schlechtes Gewissen ist besser als Groll."

-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

Cover of The Miseducation of Evie Epworth by Matson Taylor

23. The Miseducation of Evie Epworth

By: Matson Taylor

3.95

Format: 304 pages, ebook

It is the summer of 1962 and sixteen-year-old Evie Epworth stands on the cusp of womanhood. But wha… read more

Similar categories in Matson Taylor's The Miseducation of Evie Epworth book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • contemporary
Cover of Hypnobirthing: Practical Ways to Make Your Birth Better by Siobhan Miller

24. Hypnobirthing: Practical Ways to Make Your Birth Better

By: Siobhan Miller

4.33

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOUR BIRTH BETTER. IT IS FOR EVERY PARENT AND EVERY TYPE OF BIRTH.Expert hypnob… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Miller's Hypnobirthing: Practical Ways to Make Your Birth Better book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
Cover of Your Baby, Your Birth: Hypnobirthing Skills For Every Birth by Hollie de Cruz

25. Your Baby, Your Birth: Hypnobirthing Skills For Every Birth

By: Hollie de Cruz

4.25

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

No matter how you birth your baby, feel calm and safe with hypnobirthing "This woman is a great he… read more

Similar categories in Hollie de Cruz's Your Baby, Your Birth: Hypnobirthing Skills For Every Birth book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
Cover of I Love You, I Love You, I Love You by Laura Dockrill

26. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

By: Laura Dockrill

4.06

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Ella and Lowe are teenagers when they first meet. For her, it’s love at first sight. But it’s safes… read more

Similar categories in Laura Dockrill's I Love You, I Love You, I Love You book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • contemporary
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27. My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

By: Clover Stroud

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'The best evocation of the all-consuming, self-eroding reality of motherhood, while also being lumi… read more

Similar categories in Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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28. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • contemporary
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29. Think Again

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Wilson's Think Again book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • contemporary
Cover of Block, Delete, Move On: It's not you, it's them by Lalalaletmeexplain

30. Block, Delete, Move On: It's not you, it's them

By: Lalalaletmeexplain

4.31

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Have you ever been on a disastrous date and vowed never to use apps again?Are you blaming yourself … read more

Similar categories in Lalalaletmeexplain's Block, Delete, Move On: It's not you, it's them book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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31. Versions of a Girl

By: Catherine Gray

4.01

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

Do we become who we are because of our parents, or in spite of them?Fern's mother is a social climb… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Gray's Versions of a Girl book and Clover Stroud's My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

  • contemporary

14 best-selling contemporary books like My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story by Clover Stroud

Transform Your Habits

Girls in Love (Girls, #1)

Jacqueline Wilson

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

Nina Stibbe

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Darling

India Knight

4.03

Transform Your Habits

All My Mothers

Joanna Glen

4.44

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Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

Lucy Jones

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: Weaving Ancient Wisdom With Modern Knowledge

Rachel Reed

4.56

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Give Birth Like a Feminist: Your Body. Your Baby. Your Choices.

Milli Hill

4.01

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The Modern Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond

Marie Louise

4.31

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