Ellie has a fun and friendly narrative throughout whilst still highlighting important issues (miscarriage, post labour care, PND) and even more importantly being honest when she is not well informed in certain areas. Maybe a re-read at a more relevant time in my life would glean a different review, but for now, it's this one. Admittedly, I'm not really the target audience as I don't have any particular interest in children and am not a mother. In the UK, one nursery worker must be present for every four children aged two to three, whereas in France that ratio is one adult to eight kids, who are presumably so often left to their own devices they can usually be found smoking skinny cigarettes and reading Proust. I truly believe that this book should be given to all expectant parents with their bounty packs instead of the token sample of pointless panty liners and body butters.

The ultimate Valentine's Day countdown - here are 10 romantic gestures to help sweep your partner off their feet! However, almost every single point tries to be pseudo-political with stats on everything from miscarriages she hasn’t had, to BAME maternal mortality rates, to shared parental leave that she was indeed able to take. Thanks Ellie, not sure I can express enough just how much this has helped me to mentally heal from my own experience!

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I love that she’s not afraid to talk about the harder things with pregnancy and new borns, and I wish I’d read this book before I’d had my child, it’s the most useful book on parenting I’ve read! Well, because I am mother to a 5 month old and am currently at the stage of craving anything that makes me feel ‘seen’. Just as my neighbours foretold, one of the nurseries I visited – a fancy hippy place which boasted an organic plant-based menu prepared by an ex-Ottolenghi chef – told me during a tour of the facility that, in all honesty, I was unlikely to ever get a space for this child, but if I went on to have a second one then I could transfer our place on the waiting list to that hypothetical baby instead.Childcare costs in the UK are some of the most expensive in the world for a variety of reasons, including lack of government funding and also the legal specifications around adult to children ratios. Not just a very honest book about becoming a mother but a very very honest book about being a woman and navigating all the choices and not-choices that this involves. It just resonated and every so often someone famous reposts it and it all kicks off again,’ Ellie says.

Ellie is also hosting her own Radio 4 show, ELLIE TAYLOR'S SAFE SPACE, the second series of which will air in 2021 . She's a regular on BBC 2 satirical show THE MASH REPORT, with her clips becoming worldwide viral hits, with one notching up over 100 million views online, being shared by Madonna and Jennifer Aniston. I absolutely love Ellie she’s one of my favourite comedians so was excited to see she had a book out and I got approved for an ARC.As the front-woman of Blondie, she and the band forged a new sound that brought together the worlds of rock, punk, disco, reggae and hip-hop to create some of the most beloved pop songs of all time. During the intro of her book, Ellie Taylor acknowledges are privileges as a White, Cis woman in a marriage with a Cis man, and later she also acknowledges her privilege when it comes to aspects such as ease of conception and maternal mortality rates (but more on that aspect of the book later. Ellie Taylor is a well-known comedian, so it should come as no shock that this book was rather tongue-in-cheek and laugh-out-loud funny. It celebrates a life experience but acknowledges all the variations that other people may feel or encounter.