When she became a mother herself, Jodie Hedley-Ward failed to find any book that supported her own beliefs about what motherhood could, and should, be, so she set about writing one herself. You sexy mother was the triumphant result.

since then, thousands of women have read and aborbed the you sexy mother philosophy, then sought further information and contact with other women through the author’s busy website yousexymother.com.au

Jodie has also received hundreds of emails from women whose lives have been positively changed ghrough reading the book and by adapting many of the practical suggestions to their own lives.

Inspired by these women, Jodie created you sexy mother: the journal, a beautiful but practical follow up to her first book, offering sensible advice on self-perception, self respect, the importance of relationships, simplifying your life, creativity through motherhood and making use of community resources.

The jornal is also a workbook, containing numerous reflection questions, quotes and thoughts designed to stimulate inner growth and change. Jodie has also updated the transformational ten-day turnaround plan that appeared in her first book, making this book even more useful.

Judie hedley-Ward has several degrees including a master of business, and worked as a marketing executive around the world, before marriage to David and two children. She’s an Australian author and lives in Queesland.

Judie is coming to Parramatta City Library for the First Wed Author talk on May, 5th.  Come and join us for this fascinating talk.

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Susan Sontag was one of the great intellectuals of her generation.  She is considered an authority on American Popular culture.

She wrote books of essays, novels and a well known book on photography.

Her son, David, edited her first diary and it is a fascinating account of the coming of age of a precious and brilliant mind.  It begins when she is just 14 years old and charts her impressions, thoughts and ambitions as a university student, her young married life, motherhood and finally her escape from a suffocating marriage.  Finally it places her squarely into the milieu her future life will follow – that of intellectuals, free thinkers, academics, writers and artists, first in Paris and later is New York City.

Sontag is fearlessly and rigorously honest to herself in these diaries and espouses her credo throughout which is "That the most important thing in the world is freedon to be true to oneself".

Sontag sadly died in 2004 having fulfilled most of her life’s ambitions.  Always a great role model for young women, she proved that a satisfying and successful career could be forged in the world of letters, no matter who you were, just as long as you believed ijn yourself and strived to be the best you could be.  This publication is the first of three volumes.