Every parent, every caregiver, every person who feels besieged by permanent busyness, must read this book * <b>Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of <i>Why Women Still Can't Have It All</i></b> * Why is life so insanely busy? What happened to leisure time? Tired of the modern hamster wheel, Brigid Schulte set out to find a better way to live. Overwhelmed is a passionate, funny, very human book * <b>William Powers, author of <i>Hamlet's BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age</i></b> * Features the author's personal search for balance alongside her advice for busy women * <i><b>Red</i></b> * Startling ... May well do for time-poor workers that Lean In has done for guilt-ridden working mums * <b><i>Evening Standard</i></b> * The very real and sometimes moving book is a masterly combination of social observation, interview, statistics and riveting human stories. Schulte's honesty is appealing * <i><b>Irish Daily Mail</b></i> * Thought-provoking ... Brigid Schulte takes to takes our headlong descent into multi-tasking madness * <b><i>Daily Telegraph</i></b> * She says we turn leisure into work, thinking we are lazy if we're not `doing something'. I couldn't agree more * <b>Janet Street-Porter, <i>Daily Mail</i></b> * Engaging ... by turns a pop science explainer, self-help guide and subtle feminist polemic - aims to discover why some of us feel there simply aren't enough hours in the day ... This book's strength is mixing research and anecdote in a lively, accessible way, with a reporter's eye for detail * <b><i>Guardian</i></b> * In one of the best sections of the book, Ms. Schulte interviews Pat Buchanan, the man who more than anyone else destroyed the prospect of a high-quality universal child care system in the United States * <b><i>New York Times</b></i> * Brigid Schulte writes directly of her own cubicle experience, and it is not pretty * <b><i>Financial Times</b></i> * Too much to do? Stop and read this * <b><i>Guardian</i></b> * For a fresh take on an eternal dilemma, Overwhelmed is worth a few hours of any busy woman's life - if only to ensure that she doesn't drop off the bottom of her own To Do list ***** * <b><i>Mail on Sunday</i></b> * Not only captures the conundrum so many people face but also offers some practical solutions. It's not a self-help book per se, but I found many of the anecdotes and stories personally instructive * <b>Andrew Ross Sorkin, <i>International New York Times</b></i> *