The Wilderness Years: A Parents' Survival Guide is a book that offers solace for mothers as they battle across the landscape of child-rearing. It is a voice of reason cut low across the incessant babble of how to’s and don’t do’s that plays in the background of parenting. It gives credence to the first 5 years of motherhood and acknowledges the physical and emotional sacrifices all mothers make. "There are times when you will huddle under a blanket on the sofa furtively eating chocolate and praying for divine intervention. Or a natural disaster."  Witty and inspirational, The Wilderness Years transcends parenting styles and techniques, socioeconomic groups and choice of pet.  In a time where everything is about the children, it is a book for the parents, about parents, by a parent.   Camille Blyth is an author and parent. She has a BCA with a double major in writing and textiles but spent most of her working life as a digital producer. The Wilderness Years is her first book. She lives in Sydney, Australia, surrounded by little girls, pink glitter, empty lunch-boxes and chickens.  Her Wilderness Years are over but she knows she's not out of the woods yet.