In today's episode I speak with Annette and Zoe, two new but sure to be lifelong friends from my mothers group. Annette is a producer in the arts and mother to Freddie, and Zoe is a criminal barrister, comedian and mother to Reina. Both are legends. We speak about how our expectations of motherhood contrast with its realities in unexpected ways, how we conceive of ourselves during this period of profound life change, navigating career and ambition in motherhood, our evolving feminism and our hopes when raising boys.The book I read from in the introduction is Rachel Cusk's 'A Life's Work'.

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