The Spoonie Mummy

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Today I have a brilliant new book from Jessica Taylor-Bearman – A Girl Beyond Closed Doors – to share with you. Jessica has M.E. and this book chronicles her journey through pregnancy, being a chronically ill mum and the Covid pandemic. As I write about life and parenting with chronic illness it was right up my street and I couldn’t wait to get stuck into it!

The Blurb

The perfect memoir for Christmas 2023! The much-anticipated concluding book in this best- selling series.

After 12 years of being trapped in the world of one room by the M.E. Monster, Jessica’s dreams start to come true. She’s pregnant! But Jessica has to adjust to being a disabled mum in an inaccessible world and face the critics who doubt her abilities. And when the pandemic hits just as they relocate to a new county, isolation takes on a new form, as they learn to adjust to being a family of three in one flat limited by government-enforced restrictions and fear of contracting Covid. Balancing parenthood and chronic illness, expectations versus reality, Jessica discovers alternative fairytale endings are possible… a life beyond closed doors.