The Reluctant Mother.  How many times is this a glaring foghorn in many women’s lives?  This story was a bit of a throwback for me personally.  I didn’t suffer with Post-Partum Psychosis but quite severe PND with my first child.  I was a brand-new mother at the tender age of nineteen and was now faced with the reality of a disabled son.  It was raw and grieving to a point and unfortunately the bonding wasn’t as immediate as I had hoped.  The story is raw and slow – paced but it is everything that it needs to be.  It’s 369 pages of pain and misguided mistakes.  A mother.  The image…