I was sick of blokey books by dads – could mothers’ memoirs make me a better father?

All the parenting manuals I’d read were jokey and superficial. Then I turned to Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy. What does a book look like that is going to change your life? How do the pages feel? How does it smell? Surely not like the parenting books I started reading more than two years ago, in the spring of 2018, when I was on parental leave, the weather was gorgeous and my marriage was beginning to crumble. And yet these were books that would change my life. Only not in the way I anticipated.

Carl Cederström, The Guardian