In this myth-busting manifesto, Sarah Thompson shares her own experience of single motherhood together with case studies and insights from some of the leading voices in child development, psychology, education and the law.

Sarah Thompson is a Sunday Times bestselling author and ghostwriter, as well as a journalist and copywriter. Sarah's features, on subjects ranging from parenting and divorce to sex, mental health and female friendship, have appeared in numerous publications including the Daily Telegraph and Stella Magazine, the Guardian and the Daily Mail. She's also written books about the perils of modern motherhood (You're So Mummy, published by Michael Joseph), stylish interiors in ex-council houses (Style Council, published by Square Peg) and is the ghost writer behind a number of bestselling memoirs for television celebrities and social media influencers. Sarah is the proudly divorced, single mother of two teenage children. She lives in Bridport, Dorset.