General Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

Meet the Author. Help needed please.

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Mommylonglegs

Mommylonglegs Report 31 Jul 2011 18:55

I have just caught the tail end on BBC, of an interview with a young author. I gather the book is set in Liverpool about a pregnancy, birth and post natal depression. The Mother is called Rachel I think.

Can anyone tell me the title and author of the book please?

Jenny

Elisabeth

Elisabeth Report 31 Jul 2011 19:12

Jenny - this is from BBC Pages:

Meet the author: Helen Walsh
28 July 2011 Last updated at 21:17 Help In this week's Meet the Author, the BBC's Nick Higham speaks to author Helen Walsh about her new book Go To Sleep.

The book follows the story of a woman suffering from post-natal depression and sleep deprivation after the birth of her first child, an autobiographical subject matter for Walsh.

Walsh says she hopes it will "bring the issue of sleep deprivation into the public arena".

Elisabeth x

Edit:

This is the link to the iPlayer interview:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14327770

Mommylonglegs

Mommylonglegs Report 31 Jul 2011 19:41

Yes Elisabeth, that is the one. Thank you very much for the info and link. Although I have never suffered from either, I would imagine it a good read.

Jenny x

Elisabeth

Elisabeth Report 31 Jul 2011 19:57

You are very welcome Jenny. It looks like an interesting read.

Elisabeth x

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 1 Aug 2011 05:32

Oh heaven's, could have been me! My son didn't sleep through the night till he was 2 and a half and as a single Mum, I had no one to help me out. He nearly went out the window many a night lol, I tried everything, singing to him, rocking him, the lot. Middleaged single childless health visitor told me to leave him on the floor of his bedroom to cry himself to sleep and then put a blanket over him when he was sleeping so as not to disturb him! Fgs, firstly how would any Mum rest knowing her baby was on the floor and crying, and secondly the neighbours wouldn't have put up with it - they needed their sleep too!

Lizx