“I thought being pregnant would instantly turn me into a Madonna. […] That I would suddenly feel changed. But time passes, my body grows bigger, and the gap between my expectations and reality widens more and more.” In a therapeutic story, Mélanie Boulay tells The birth of a mother and the journey she has taken since the arrival of her boys. In order to “put down in black and white what is inside her”, the author transparently delivers the ups and downs – especially the downs – of her motherhood, her anxieties and her disillusionments. And, like a hand extended “towards those who feel alone in this journey”, she fluidly details this experience in an honest way. Several oft-heard reflections on society and its demands accompany the speech in an unfortunately conventional way. And, in all this self-representation, Boulay delivers a message very much of her time that allows her to achieve her goals, but which darkens the entire prodigious side of this journey experienced by women since the dawn of time.
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