I love books of all kinds and so when I was asked if I’d like to review a copy of Stories of Motherhood, I was happy to oblige :)

“Stories of Motherhood is the latest title in the Everyman’s Library’s Pocket Classics series and is a wonderful collection of short stories celebrating all aspects of motherhood.”

I love this book! It contains 17 short stories ranging from over a century. Some that make you laugh, some that make you smile, some that make you cry and some that make you realise just how precious being a mum is. As all of us mum’s know far too well, finding time to sit down and read is a challenge at the best of times so the great thing about short stories is that you might actually get through them before the baby starts screaming again or the toddler breaks something else ;)

“Authors include Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Munro, Willa Cather and Colm Toibin. Lydia Davis and Harold Brodkey explore dizzying encounters between young mothers and their newborn babies, while Colm Tóibín and Lorrie Moore portray adult children grieving for their lost mothers. Ron Carlson probes the forging of a bond with an adopted infant; Barbara Kingsolver gives us a sparring mother-and-daughter pair whose overlapping pregnancies lead them to common ground, and Aimee Bender offers a loopy fable of maternal connection in which a woman gives birth to her own mother.”

The book is hardback and it has one of those fab silk bookmark ribbons in it (I love these – means I don’t need to find a bookmark and I don’t loose my place when I have to get up for the 50th time in half an hour lol). The book looks lovely and is guaranteed to make any mother smile. If you don’t get it for yourself then I’d highly recommend it as a Mother’s Day gift, it will make a lovely keepsake :)

Stories of Motherhood is published on 8th March 2012 and will be priced at £10.99 (I found it available to preorder here on Amazon at £8.58!)

The publishers have kindly agreed to give away a copy of Stories of Motherhood to TWO of my lovely readers, I’m ending this competition a little earlier than I usually do on Wednesday 14th March at 8pm so that you will be able to receive your copy in time for Mothers Day :)

How to Enter

You can do all of the actions below or just 1 of them but please make sure you leave a separate comment for each action you take or your entries will not be valid & please make sure you leave a way of contacting you either email or twitter, Thank you x

* Leave me a comment telling me you’d like to be entered

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* Tweet the following “I’d like to win a copy of Stories of Motherhood @dawnie_brown in this lovely giveaway at http://alturl.com/xyztd “

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Good luck! UK entries only please. The winner will be drawn by random.org on March 14th at 8pm x