Kate Figes
Kate Figes is the author of Because of Her Sex: the Myth of Equal Opportunity for Women; Life After Birth; The Terrible Teens and The Big Fat Bitch Book. She has also written two novels: What About Me: the Diaries and Emails of a Menopausal Mother and her Teenage Daughter; and a sequel, What About Me, Too? She writes articles regularly for the Guardian and the Times and is books editor at You magazine, the Sunday colour supplement for the Mail on Sunday
March 2018
November 2012
Postnatal depression: the pressures new mothers face, now more than ever
This week a judge chose not to jail a woman who killed her two young children while suffering from an extreme form of postnatal depression. Such tragedies are rare, but evidence suggests increasing numbers of new mothers are struggling. Why?
