"A brave, brilliant and scathing self-portrait, full of energy and insight. If Frida Kahlo had been a writer, she might have been compared to Jowita Bydlowska"
-Patricia Pearson, author of A Brief History of Anxiety - Yours and Mine

"Fearless and troubling, and so very humane. Bydlowska's book explodes the cutesy momoir genre. You'll read it in one sitting."
-Katrina Onstad, author of Everybody Has Everything

"Drunk Mom is a stunning, harrowing read. Why harrowing? Not just because of the dramatic story, of a new mother at the edge of her tether. And not only because of Jowita Bydlowska’s skill as a writer, and the crisp, original way she tells it. What’s most harrowing about Drunk Mom is that you can’t stop reading it—this, the dark, now-told tale that lurks in the shadow of every seemingly normal family."
-Ian Brown, author of The Boy in the Moon

"This is quite simply not just another addiction memoir. It's something truly special. I felt this book. It carries the reader. It whispers. It really is can't-put-it-down great!"
-Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, author of I'm Kind of a Big Deal: And Other Delusions of Adequacy

Jowita Bydlowska has taken the no-holds-barred approach to her memoir about being an alcoholic new mom. The result is a brutally honest, often painful account of Bydlowska’s relapse into alcohol addiction after having her first child. On the surface Bydlowska seemed like any other urban mother with a new child, a new house and a loving relationship. But this facade hid her inability to resist the call of alcohol, binge drinking, and terrifying blackouts. Avoiding vapid self-justification she shines a light on the endless hunger of wanting just one more taste while facing motherhood, anxiety, depression and rehab.   DRUNK MOM is a spare, harsh and honest book -- refreshingly free of both histrionics and cheap sentimentality --from which you simply cannot look away.

Doubleday Canada, April 2013 HarperCollins Australia, Spring 2013

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"Bydlowska is an evocative, talented and gutsy writer who appears willing to confess all." -Maclean's