Black Milk: On Motherhood and Writing

Black Milk is the affecting and beautifully written memoir on motherhood and writing by Turkeys bestselling female writer Elif Shafak author of Honour The Gaze and The Bastard of Istanbul which was long-listed for the Orange prize.Postpartum 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 my adult life . . . words wouldnt speak to me. As her despair finally eased Shafak sought to resuscitate her writing life by chronicling her own experiences.In her intimate memoir she reveals how she struggled to overcome her depression and how literature provided the salvation she so desperately needed.An intimate affecting memoir . . . Her passion for literature is contagious and her struggle with postpartum depression and writers block reinforces how carefully all of us must tread. Beautifully rendered Shafaks Black Milk is an epic poem to women everywhere Colleen Mondor About the Author Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into 54 languages. The author of 19 books 12 of which are novels she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafaks latest novel10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize; longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as Blackwells Book of the Year. Her previous novelThe Forty Rules of Love was chosen by the BBC as one of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. In 2021 ShafaksThe Architects Apprentice was chosen for the Duchess of Cornwalls inaugural book clubThe Reading Room. Find out more about Elif Shafak on her website: www.elifshafak.com.