F*cked at 40 by Tova Leigh
Hardback published by Watkins Publishing 3rd March 2020
Life Beyond Suburbia, Montogamy and Stretch Marks.
I was bored, angry, tired, and sad. I felt all alone, yet I had nothing to complain about. I had a good job, a husband who wasn’t shagging his assistant, three children who apart from being occasional a **holes were pretty good kids,a house, a dog and everything else we are told as little girls we should aspire to. But inside, I was restless. I didn’t want to be seen as just a mom. I wanted to be desired, to make someone’s hair stand on end and go crazy for me. I panicked, and wondered how many years I had left of being f**ckable before everything starts to go downhill.
My review
I have never read a book where the writer has been so honest about what has happened in their life to them, with their own thoughts and feelings.
I totally admire how Tova decided to write a book about how she really felt being a mother. My full praise goes to Tova with all the things she thought about and what Tova actually did (that I’m not giving away here in my review all the things that Tova did)
Tova makes it quite clear that she was fed up with talking to her husband having full conversations about meal plans and the kids.
Tova had a seven year old daughter and five year old twins, where she hated the stretch marks from having her children and a husband that adored her. Tova explains how she met her husband, but her children like to believe mommy and daddy met in somewhere in a totally different way.
At 40 Tova was having some kind of breakdown which can happen to anyone at any age. It’s just that Tova has had the courage to write a book about her experiences and speak out about her mid-life crisis.
Through Tova’s mid-life crisis all she wanted to do was to stay in and her husband had to do the school run.
My heart went out to Tova, who actually goes through quite an ordeal.
There are plenty of topics that brave Tova talks about in her book and I can see why her book has been an international bestseller.
Tova was daddy’s little girl in Jerusalem. She went from being daddy’s little girl to wife, mother and mommy blogger.
In 2015, To a started a blog talking about being a mother and what her children were doing. I found the talk about what she said on her blog quite funny, Tova definitely had a fabulous sense of humour in her blogs. But Tova didn’t just want to be mommy blogger that posted about her kids she needed to be free to talk about other things that were on her mind.
F*cked at 40 is a funny and empowering mid-life crisis. Tova Leigh takes the reader along on her journey of rediscovering her identity after motherhood, encouraging women to break free from society’s expectations.
When you find authenticity it’s like opening a door to the truth it’s hard to go back. This is what prompted Tova to write this book for herself and for women like her, to say HERE I AM.
Tova Leigh started her successful blog My Thoughts About Stuff in 2015, which in less than threes years made her into a internet sensation with her blunt rants about motherhood, sex and all the things taboo.
With so many different discussion throughout this book You need to read this book what ever your age .
About Tova Leigh
Originally born in Israel where she practiced law, Tova moved to the UK in 2006 to pursue a career in acting. With an MA in performing arts and a diploma in script writing, Tova went on to write, act and produce several films, before starting a family in 2011 with her husband Mike. She started her successful blog – My Thoughts About Stuff – in 2015 which in less than three years made her into an internet sensation with her blunt rants about motherhood, sex and all things taboo. Her viral online series Mom Life Crisis resonated with millions of women across the world and later became a documentary film on Amazon Prime Video. She also co-hosts a weekly podcast #nailedit with her husband.
Tova is a mother of three girls and lives together with her family in London
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