16 Best nonfiction books like What Have I Done?: An Honest Memoir About Surviving Post-natal Mental Illness by Laura Dockrill

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What Have I Done?: An Honest Memoir About Surviving Post-natal Mental Illness

By: Laura Dockrill

4.54

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

This is a raw and honest memoir about being devastated by post-partum psychosis and coming through …

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1. 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 Laura Dockrill's What Have I Done?: An Honest Memoir About Surviving Post-natal Mental Illness

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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2. 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

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  • parenting
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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4. The House of Mirrors

By: Erin Kelly

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

One of them has killed before. One of them will kill again. In the sweltering summer of 1997, s… read more

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5. The Seven Ages of Death

By: Richard Shepherd

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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6. Twenty-one Truths About Love

By: Matthew Dicks

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This heartfelt story is about the lengths one man will go to and the risks he will take to save his… read more

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"Une habitude n'est qu'une obsession qui se prétend volontaire et contrôlable."

-Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

"Il n'y a pas de questions idiotes. Il n'y a que des idiots qui posent des questions."

-Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

"Une personne est bien plus qu'une personne. Une personne est la promesse de tout ce qu'elle peut être."

-Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

"Règle : si tu dois dire que tu es la personne la plus intelligente de la pièce, c'est que tu n'es pas la plus intelligente de la pièce."

-Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

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7. Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival

By: Cash Carraway

4.14

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Cash Carraway is a single mum living in temporary accommodation. She’s been moved around the syste… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?

By: Sofie Hagen

4.05

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

'I'm hungry to go on this journey. Sofie is smashing and remoulding her readers understanding of se… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Where has Mummy Gone?: When there is nothing left but memories…

By: Cathy Glass

4.50

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of Melody, aged 8, the last of five siblings to be taken from her drug dependent sin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: Weaving Ancient Wisdom With Modern Knowledge

By: Rachel Reed

4.56

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

It’s time for a childbirth revolution. The modern approach to maternity care fails women, families … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Reed's Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: Weaving Ancient Wisdom With Modern Knowledge book and Laura Dockrill's What Have I Done?: An Honest Memoir About Surviving Post-natal Mental Illness

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • audiobook
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11. Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth

By: Rebecca Humphries

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Actor, writer and hopeless romantic Rebecca Humphries had often been called crazy by her boyfriend.… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness

By: Catherine Cho

4.23

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Inferno is the riveting memoir of a young mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband … read more

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  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of My Child and Other Mistakes: How to ruin your life in the best way possible by Ellie Taylor

13. My Child and Other Mistakes: How to ruin your life in the best way possible

By: Ellie Taylor

4.26

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

A Sunday Times bestseller: the unflinching, raw and utterly hilarious book about parenthood that ev… read more

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  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir

By: Kirsty Logan

4.40

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

An unconventional, unexpectedly funny, brutally honest memoir about infertility, pregnancy and moth… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Logan's The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir book and Laura Dockrill's What Have I Done?: An Honest Memoir About Surviving Post-natal Mental Illness

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. 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 Laura Dockrill's What Have I Done?: An Honest Memoir About Surviving Post-natal Mental Illness

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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16. Probably Nothing

By: Lauren Bravo

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Bryony doesn’t mind being single. Which is why she doesn’t understand why she keeps seeing (ok, sle… read more

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17. On The Edge

By: Sarah Turner

4.45

Format: None pages, ebook

Sometimes, in order to move forward, you need to go back.Joni’s always felt like an outsider in her… read more

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18. Head Trauma: The Bruising Diary of a Headteacher

By: Nick Smith

4.06

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of polyester suits, well-polished shoes, endless marking and a stream of emba… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of After the Storm: Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood by Emma Jane Unsworth

19. After the Storm: Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood

By: Emma Jane Unsworth

4.41

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

'Brave and important ... beautiful, hilarious, clever ... I loved this book' Clover Stroud 'Funny,… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • memoir
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20. What Have I Done?: An Honest Memoir About Surviving Post-natal Mental Illness

By: Laura Dockrill

4.54

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

This is a raw and honest memoir about being devastated by post-partum psychosis and coming through … read more

Similar categories in Laura Dockrill's What Have I Done?: An Honest Memoir About Surviving Post-natal Mental Illness book and Laura Dockrill's What Have I Done?: An Honest Memoir About Surviving Post-natal Mental Illness

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • childrens
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Fire

By: John Boyne

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the … read more

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13 Top audiobook books like What Have I Done?: An Honest Memoir About Surviving Post-natal Mental Illness by Laura Dockrill

Transform Your Habits

Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

Nina Stibbe

3.66

Transform Your Habits

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

Lucy Jones

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Strong Female Character

Fern Brady

4.48

Transform Your Habits

The Seven Ages of Death

Richard Shepherd

4.38

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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

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Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

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Susan Burton

3.78

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