The Patchwork Family

How to hold it together ... even if it feels like everything is falling apart.

Welcome to the rollercoaster of family lifethe parts nobody talks about, the ’wow’ moments, the mistakes, tears, tantrums and triumphs. This book is about the stuff we don’t teach our kids in school, how to have heartbreaking conversations and healing from being broken. It’s the book I wish I had been able to read to know things will be OK.

I’m sharing my mad, patchwork family to help you - maybe to laugh at my fails, manage teenagers pushing boundaries (good luck with that!) or find a little strength to get you through the day. I was once a single mum alone in a flat with two tiny babies coming to terms with domestic abuse; now I’m a parent and step-parent in a chaotic family of eight with a whole bunch of new challenges, standing up for survivors and with hundreds of thousands of followers in the Part-Time Working Mummy community.

This is real, messy life, usually unseen and full of baggage. It’ll never be perfect but it’s magic and it’s mine. Laugh, cry, scream and enjoy it all with me.

Rachaele Hambleton, aka Part-Time Working Mummy, is one of the most popular personalities in the parenting blogosphere. She is a full time mum to three daughters, step-mum to two boys and is recently married to her ’bird-boy’ Josh. Her successful blog documents the highs and lows of life as a family of seven... with two dogs and two guinea pigs thrown in for good measure. As well as blogging and bringing up 5 tiny humans, Rachaele fights hard for awareness and funds for domestic abuse and other charities.

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