Most mothers don’t have time for long conversations.

They may want them, crave them, begin them again and again--but they are constantly interrupted by kids, partners, work, and the day-to-day of busy lives. Between Interruptions is a remarkable collection of original essays by Canadian women that explores what is unspoken, cut off or lost in those interrupted conversations. It asks what becomes of us when our children`s lives interrupt our own. What prayers, what cries, what taboo thoughts are suddenly left unspoken?
Laid bare in this collection are the vivid, gut-wrenching, exhilarating and sometimes heartbreaking true confessions and secret longings of mothers across all ages, cultures and classes. Marina Jimenez struggles with her decision to return to her job as a journalist--in a war zone. Carrie-Anne Moss lets us into her home during her self-imposed, forty-day seclusion after the birth of her first son. Chantal Kreviazuk learns to surrender to the limitations of motherhood. Joanna Streetly struggles to find a balance between protecting and letting go. Elizabeth Renzetti and Katrina Onstad search for friends in mommyland. And Estee Klar-Wolfond finds perfection in autism.

About the Author

CORI HOWARD is an award-winning journalist. Her writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Independent, Maclean's and Chatelaine. Her radio and television work has appeared predominantly on the CBC. She lives in Vancouver.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Love this Book, May 18 2012

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This review is from: Between Interruptions: Thirty Women Tell the Truth About Motherhood (Hardcover)

This is one of those books that you read once ... and then continually go back to. It is a perfect pick-me-up when things aren't going as well as you'd hope, a great way to celebrate when things are. Love this book and highly recommend it to all moms and moms-to-be. The writing is excellent and the stories, very inspiring!

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5.0 out of 5 stars a must for new moms, Dec 8 2010

D. A. Christopher (Langley, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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I wish I had been given this book when I became a new mom. It gives you so many different essays from moms that there will be one to relate too. As a Momoir Project fan--this is a great book to re-read over thae next many many years.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Conversation You Can Finish at Your Convenience, Aug 16 2007

Ann Douglas "pregnancy/parenting author" (Peterborough, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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If you swear you haven't been able to finish a sentence, let alone complete a conversation, in years, here's a book that gives you the lowdown on what your mom friends have been trying to tell you between interruptions.

The essays in this book are organized around five key themes -- ambition, anxiety, guilt, devotion, and redemption -- and deal with situations as varied as postpartum depression, mom friendships, becoming your own father (yes father, not mother), resenting the nanny, knowing when your family is finished, and the perils of potties as hats.

To create this collection, CBC producer Cori Howard, the book's editor, solicited contributions from both well-known and not-so-well-known Canadian mothers: novelists, journalists, newspaper and magazine editors, singer/songwriters, broadcasters, bloggers (including Toronto blogger MUBAR -- Mothered Up Beyond All Recognition), and others. The result is an honest and memorable collection of outtakes from the lives of Canadian moms.

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