Half a Wife: The Working Family's Guide to Getting a Life Back - Couverture souple

Hinsliff, Gaby

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0701185988 ISBN 13 : 9780701185985

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 2012

Synopsis

For most families, it remains the ultimate dilemma: how to balance a happy, healthy family life with the demands and rewards of work. When Gaby Hinsliff realised that she couldn't continue to work 60-hour weeks, spend time with her child and expect to stay happily married, there was only one solution. She quit, and decided to start again from scratch.

Half a Wife tells the story of that leap into the dark and proposes positive, practical solutions for piecing together what at times can seem like an impossible jigsaw. It encourages working parents to rethink traditional set ups - at home, at work, in relationships - to the mutual benefit of the whole family. The result? A much more egalitarian family life, where both partners can work if they want to, both share the care and both get back a little bit of a life as a result.

Based on personal experience but also drawing on new thinking from politics, psychology, anthropology and even architecture, Half a Wife is a guide for guilt-torn parents who are teetering on the edge, but it is also a wake-up call to opinion leaders. It is essential - and uplifting - reading for anyone who feels the visceral pull of home, but also the lure of meaningful work.

'A wonderfully sane and helpful book. Better than Calpol. I only wish it had been around when I became a mother. Gaby Hinsliff has written an invaluable guide for any parent struggling to reconcile their twin
passions for their children and their work.' Allison Pearson, author of I Don't Know How She Does It

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gaby Hinsliff started her career as a reporter on the Grimsby Evening Telegraph before moving to a career in national political jouranlism. In 2004 she became the Observer's Political Editor, and the youngest political editor of a national newspaper. In 2007, she took nine months off after the birth of her son before going back to her old job, but by November 2009 she had finally decided she'd had enough of 60-hour weeks and resigned. The piece she wrote about this in the Observer was a sensation and prompted both her blog IUsedToBeSomebody and he book Half a Wife. A writer, blogger and political commentator she appears regularly on Radio 4, Sky News, ITV and the BBC and she writes regularly for a range of publications, from the Guardian to Grazia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701185988
• ISBN 13: 9780701185985
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible