Half a Wife: The Working Family's Guide to Getting a Life Back - Softcover
[ HALF A WIFE THE WORKING FAMILY'S GUIDE TO GETTING A LIFE BACK BY HINSLIFF, GABY](AUTHOR)PAPERBACK
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"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)
"This is no dummy's guide to Calpol and yummy-mummyhood, but a serious-minded study of the hoary old chestnut of cracking the work-life balance. It's a book that not only manages to break new ground but also throws up some intriguingly different solutions ... Some of what Hinsliff calls for will never happen, but much of it is all too feasible. Politicians should take note: politics is personal; get it right for families and business, and Downing Street will beckon. Hinsliff, after all, wasn't a political editor for nothing." (Eleanor Mills Sunday Times)
"Half a Wife is important ... Why should we all have an awful time just because that's the way it's always been? Why shouldn't we see our children and also pursue some sort of intellectual life? We can be happy, says Hinsliff, if we just try. She's not very British about it. And thank God for that." (Esther Walker Evening Standard)
"Hinsliff's ideas for how working parents should proceed are provactive and good...It had me wanting to go for a coffee with her. As she points out, Wi-Fi and the BlackBerry are as revolutionary to working women as the pill...a wholly supportive blueprint for any harassed parent thinking about working from home or currently doing so...this is a book for our age." (Rosie Millard Observer)
"It offers a depth of understanding and empathy that working women are crying out for ... Hinsliff highlights precisely the difficulties, not to mention the absurdities, of the daily Ovidian transformation from world-saving, war-crying boardroom battleaxe to beatific, nappy-changing nursery playmate." (Harriet Walker Independent)
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passions for their children and their work." (Allison Pearson, author of I Don't Know How She Does It)
"This is no dummy's guide to Calpol and yummy-mummyhood, but a serious-minded study of the hoary old chestnut of cracking the work-life balance. It's a book that not only manages to break new ground but also throws up some intriguingly different solutions ... Some of what Hinsliff calls for will never happen, but much of it is all too feasible. Politicians should take note: politics is personal; get it right for families and business, and Downing Street will beckon. Hinsliff, after all, wasn't a political editor for nothing." (Eleanor Mills Sunday Times)
"Half a Wife is important ... Why should we all have an awful time just because that's the way it's always been? Why shouldn't we see our children and also pursue some sort of intellectual life? We can be happy, says Hinsliff, if we just try. She's not very British about it. And thank God for that." (Esther Walker Evening Standard)
"Hinsliff's ideas for how working parents should proceed are provactive and good...It had me wanting to go for a coffee with her. As she points out, Wi-Fi and the BlackBerry are as revolutionary to working women as the pill...a wholly supportive blueprint for any harassed parent thinking about working from home or currently doing so...this is a book for our age." (Rosie Millard Observer)
"It offers a depth of understanding and empathy that working women are crying out for ... Hinsliff highlights precisely the difficulties, not to mention the absurdities, of the daily Ovidian transformation from world-saving, war-crying boardroom battleaxe to beatific, nappy-changing nursery playmate." (Harriet Walker Independent)
How one highflyer completely rethought her work and family life, and what doing it differently could mean for parents everywhere.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0701185988
- ISBN 13 9780701185985
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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