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Children are little monsters and very, very, exhausting. A book of experiences, as angry as it is witty. Sex life suffers, in-laws annoy, friends stay away, money is short and social services are a joke. Written by a young couple who are irritated with the fussy, patronising, stupid tone of all these academic, oh-so-worthy parental manuals. When someone becomes a parent his or her life changes radically. These dearly loved, egocentric objects suddenly appear. Nothing is the same and all planning has gone out of the window. This is about real life and not the foolish myth of fatherhood and motherhood. Children are wonderful and the greatest things but they are also irritating and exhausting. Both are true but the latter is the problem. Struggling with children fundamentally alters relationships and often destroys them, ruins parents’ plans and dreams, puts an end to carriers, divides friends. Most of that need not happen. This book shows why things can be done sincerely and with a sense of humour. Rights sold to: Italy (Sperling & Kupfer)
About the author:
Thomas Lindemann, born in Pinneberg near Hamburg in 1972, now tries to balance his domestic and professional life in Berlin. After graduating in psychology he worked as a free-lance journalist for several newspapers and magazines, from Jetzt through Stern to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper, and also in a variety of places, including a year in New York. For the last four years he has been magazine editor on Die Welt. Julia Heilmann, born in Darmstadt in 1975, studied art history in Jena, Barcelona und Berlin, first worked for an academic publisher and, until anarchy entered her life in the form of two children, she was running an art bookshop. |
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