This is a book for real world mums with real world children and trying to live a real world life. With no frills and fancies, Sarah Mae and Sally Clarkson say all the things you might be afraid to admit and reassure you that you're normal, doing well and then help you do better.

From the introduction entitled 'I can't be a mother today' and all throught the sections headed: 'The Dream Life... but Altered', 'Getting Real about Mum-hood', to hopeful 'The Redeeming', the authors help you conquer everything from 'voices that Influence' to the 'Beast of Housework'. There's a special chapter for single mums and an admission that formulas sometimes don't work. The ideal reassuring, pick-me up read for when you think you're not coping with the help you need to prove that you can!

For mothers of young children, this book is a lovely offering of hope, truth, freedom, wild grace, friendship and the knowledge that they are not alone.
Many mothers have dreamed of life with children, and yet the reality seems far away from their dreams. Their hearts are committed, but their spirits are sagging. This book is a coffee-talk from one woman who is still “figuring-it-out-in-the-mess” (Sarah Mae) and much-needed counsel from one who is older and wiser (Sally Clarkson).

The book’s message speaks to the hearts of desperate women who need a friend to come alongside and encourage them, give them hope, and remind them of who they are. 'Desperate' is a tremendous source of compassion and information for any mama of young children who:

• Feels she’s going under
• Is isolated and lonely
• Has lost to the beast of housework
• Is suffering from depression and a feeling of desperation

Each mother will know she has a woman who can relate with her in the daily struggles of motherhood, and will receive wisdom from an older woman who has gone through the struggles and made it to the other side.