<p>Motherhood is life-changing. Joyful. Disorientating. Overwhelming. Intense on every level. It's the best, most awful job.<br> The Best, Most Awful Job brings together twenty bold and brilliant women to speak about motherhood in all its raw, heart-wrenching, gloriously impossible forms.<br> Overturning assumptions, breaking down myths and shattering stereotypes, these writers challenge our perceptions of what it means to be a mother - and ask you to listen.<br> Contributors include:<br> Michelle Adams ( Between the Lies )<br> Javaria Akbar ( Vice, Refinery29, Buzzfeed contributor)<br> Charlene Allcott ( More than a Mum )<br> MiMi Aye ( Mandalay: Recipes and Tales from a Burmesse Kitchen)<br> Jodi Bartle ( The London Mother contributor)<br> Sharmila Chauhan ( The Husbands )<br> Josie George ( A Still Life: A Memoir )<br> Leah Hazard ( The Father's Home Birth Handbook )<br> Joanne Limburg ( The Woman Who Thought Too Much)<br> Katherine May ( Wintering )<br> Susana Moreira Marques ( Now and at the Hour of our Death )<br> Dani McClain ( We Live for the We, contributor to the Nation )<br> Hollie McNish ( Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood )<br> Saima Mir (Guardian contributor, It's Not about the Burqa contributor)<br> Carolina Alvarado Molk ( New Letters contributor)<br> Emily Morris ( My Shitty Twenties )<br> Jenny Parrott (Oneworld editor)<br> Huma Qureshi ( In Spite of Oceans )<br> Peggy Riley ( Amity & Sorrow )<br> Michelle Tea ( Modern Tarot and Black Wave )<br> Tiphanie Yanique ( Land of Love and Drowning )<br></p>