Download or read book The Whole Intimate Mess written by Holly Walker and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I began to pull the threads of my experience back together. Instead of divergent stories about public failure, private torment, and postnatal distress, I started telling myself a united story: the truth, or as close as I could get to it.’ A Rhodes scholar and former Green MP, Holly Walker tells the story of how she became one of New Zealand’s youngest parliamentarians, how motherhood intervened, and how she found solace and solidarity in the writings of women. This short book makes a passionate case for the role of literature in political change and personal resilience, and for the importance of women’s voices in the public sphere.