My Shitty Twenties

The baby's father's parting shot was "Enjoy your impending shitty, snotty, vomity twenties."

When Emily Morris was 22 and half way through university, she found out she was pregnant. It felt like an alien invasion but her instincts took over and, despite being totally unmaternal, she found herself going ahead with the pregnancy.

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My Shitty Twentiesis based on an award-winning blog about being a single mum. Emily Morris started writing when her son was two and she needed to try to find something funny in a crap, banal day. Six years later, this is her story.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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