Black Milk
On Motherhood and Writing
$30.71
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
23 October 2013
Summary
An affecting and beautifully written memoir on motherhood and writing by Turkey’s bestselling female author
Postnatal depression affects millions of new mothers every year, and - like most of its victims - Elif Shafak never expected to be one of them. But after the birth of her first child in 2006, the internationally bestselling Turkish author remembers how, ‘for the first time in my adult life… words wouldn’t speak to me’.
As her despair finally eased, Shafak sought to resus…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241966259 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241966256 |
| Author: | Elif Shafak |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 23 October 2013 |
| Weight: | 201g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
Black Milk is a book to dip into, to lend around, a book that you feel deserves to be read by all women attempting to draw together so many differing aspirations… It’s a book to be readily passed on to… * Le Magazine Azur *An intimate, affecting memoir … Her passion for literature is contagious, and her struggle with postpartum depression and writer’s block reinforces how carefully all of us must tread.
About The Author
Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-seven languages. The author of twenty books, fourteen of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak’s previous novel, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, was the UK’s bestselling literary hardback novel of 2025, selling over 500,000 copies. Her work has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, amongst others, and she is currently nominated for ‘Author of the Year’ at the British Book Awards. Elif Shafak was appointed President of the Royal Society of Literature in 2025. Her books have sold several million copies worldwide.
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