"A bouquet of empirical opinions and reminiscences of about all the many small moments that make up the mothering process."
Sunday Globe

"Humourous, frank and passionate… Entertaining and gutsy, her account will warn and console parents."
Publishers Weekly

"A wonderful memoir of what motherhood is really like…fun to read, eye-opening, humourous and exasperating."
Library Journal

“[A]n exuberant, generous-hearted book about the experience of motherhood and the impact of that experience on her life and work … The writing is intelligent, reflective and touchingly brave ... Jackson possesses a novelist’s eye and ear.”
Carol Shields, The Globe and Mail

“An intimate look at an evolving relationship and a startlingly honest self-portrait of an intelligent woman growing older and wiser....Jackson makes a major contribution towards restoring the dignity that mothering children deserves.”
Maclean's

“A witty and honest account of the strange isolation, the mingled joys and madness of motherhood…funny, tough and relentless, pushing each thought as far as she can bear.”
The Toronto Star

"Truly one of the most enjoyable reads of the season…Jackson makes the pages crackle in the manner of Fay Weldon or Nora Ephron."
ROB Magazine

"You've got to read The Mother Zone. "
Kingston Whig-Standard

"A terrific book…Jackson concocts a refreshing tonic out of the comedy of errors we call family life…a treat for weary parents of either sex."
Quill & Quire

"Delightful…funny, touching, reassuring, a revelation. The Mother Zone is a marvelous combination of personal experience tempered by intellectual observation… flashes of recognition occur on every page…a must-read for all modern mothers."
Books in Canada

"I was hooked…Jackson's writing is so succinct, so perceptive and flows so easily that it keeps the reader enthralled…her themes are so universal that anyone who has ever been a mother, had a mother, knows a mother, will know exactly what she's talking about."
Kitchener-Waterloo Record

"It reads like a novel, as intimate as a poem…With a gift for metaphor, good humour, and remarkably honesty [Jackson] calls up the feelings and minutiae of motherhood…This wonderful self-portrait of emotional life in the mother zone provides solace and surprises from start to finish."
Kirkus Reviews

"A worthy companion to Dr. Spock on every parent's bookshelf."
Chatelaine

"It is hard to find anything that conveys the complex emotional truth about being a mother - the rage, the tenderness, the loss of self, the paralyzing fear, the numbing drudgery…The exception may be Marni Jackson's new book, The Mother Zone… This book, with its humour, depth and compassion, could be a long-overdue manifesto for mothers, the beginning of an undeclared revolution."
Ottawa Citizen

"Irresistibly funny… Poignant insight and a style that lured me to read the thing at stoplights… Drop all your preconceived ideas about mothering at the front cover… Marni Jackson's first-hand account of motherhood deserves a category all its own."
Charlotte Observer

"Jackson is truthful and hits female feelings right on the head."
Calgary Herald

"The Mother Zone is filled with the kind of insights you'll never get from Dr. Spock… Jackson is by turns tender and ruthless, unashamedly sentimental and fearlessly self-mocking… Her observations are often hilarious."
Family Practice

"Reading Jackson's book was like a re-run of my own alternatively dark and euphoric thoughts, only put in extremely eloquent, poignant, why-didn't-I-say-that language."
Victoria Times-Colonist

"You can be a sensitive male and motherhood will still be the dark side of the moon. This book takes you there."
NOW Magazine

"Jackson gives readers back to themselves, the best thing a book can do."
Edmonton Journal