Phew this one is hard to review. It's a great book. It presents a view of motherhood that at times intensely relatable but also incredibly repulsive.

I hated Leda. She was arrogant, self-centred, selfish. Deeply flawed and damaged. Her struggle with losing herself in motherhood is one that many mothers would relate to, and I fought and fought against my instinct to berate her for leaving, for holding her, as a woman, to a higher moral code than a father.

But she turned herself into a martyr, a victim of her own desire to be the best at everything. And it was self gratification that made her leave and self gratification that made her go back to them. And then she resented them both for 'feeling her love was transient'

It's a great book, a really nuanced exploration of motherhood, of female sacrifice and the battles that remain for women who try to have it all.