This Woman's Work

This Woman’s Work is a captivating read that brings memories and music into the same space to show how closely they are connected. It will make you want to dig out the songs your mother played to help you fall asleep as a child or the CD that never left your stereo in your teens * The Wire *
[This Woman’s Work] strikes a chord: “We can’t help but surrender to what moves us in the sound even if it seems contradictory or irrational; in fact, our experience of music is full of contradictions,” Heather Leigh writes in the introduction. The result is a collection worth tuning in to * Publishers Weekly *
By inhabiting the sound worlds these women create, we get to engage with a vast range of ideas, to consider profound concepts of liberty and oppression, of joy and terror. Always there are the notes between, of the unexpected, the nuanced, the bold… This Woman’s Work is an important collage of tenses, disciplines, perspectives, borders and experiences. * The Quietus *
This Woman’s Work is a collection of music writing, but in the loosest possible sense. Here, music is the soil in which all manner of stories take seed and bloom * Guardian *
Sixteen bright, insightful essays that present an array of trailblazers, geniuses, obsessives * Irish Times *