Title: Morning Star Author: Danna Hobart Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press Genre: Non-Fiction , Mainstream, Self Help Publication date: 2006 ISBN: 1-59374-482-X Pages: 403 Rating: Reviewer: Annick

For the other truck drivers Jodi is known as Morning Star. Just another truck driver with a friendly voice. Jodi likes her job, being on the road so much, and the contact with the other drivers. But it’s not all fun, some of those guys can be really rude. And it’s hard working, but it’s what Jodi needs at this time. She finds herself a better trucker than a mother. It’s not that she doesn’t love her son, she adores him but being a mother only, drives her crazy. She can’t wait to see him, but she needs to get away from time to time so this is the perfect job for her.

Jodi has mixed feelings when she finds out that she’s pregnant again, it’s not that she doesn’t want to have another baby, but it will change everything. She will have to quit her job and stay home and she knows that this probably will end up in a bad way. The same way it did before, she’s afraid that she will tumble straight in to a nervous breakdown again.

With Morning Star, Danna Hobart has written a heart-touching story about a young mother who has a postnatal depression. She tries so hard to be a good mother and she is but she’s suffering a lot.
I’ve never had a postnatal depression and I hope I never will, but reading Morning Star makes me understand what it must be like. Danna Hobart doesn’t only show us what it is for the mother but also for the people around her. Once I started reading, it was difficult to stop, I wanted to know how things end up for the main character Jodi.

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