Imprint: Arrow
Published: 31/01/2008
ISBN: 9780099502883
Length: 432 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm
Weight: 298g
RRP: £9.99
For Lucy Sweeney, motherhood isn't all astanga yoga and Cath Kidston prints. It's been years since the dirty laundry pile was less than a metre high, months since Lucy remembered to have sex with her husband, and a week since she last did the school run wearing pyjamas.
Motherhood, it seems, has more pitfalls than she might have expected. Caught between perfectionist Yummy Mummy No 1 and hypercompetitive Alpha Mum, Lucy is in danger of losing the parenting plot. And worst of all, she's alarmingly distracted by Sexy Domesticated Dad. It's only a matter of time before the dirty laundry quite literally blows up in her face...
Imprint: Arrow
Published: 31/01/2008
ISBN: 9780099502883
Length: 432 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm
Weight: 298g
RRP: £9.99
This slice of angst and affluenza is several cuts above the rest ... witty, observant and supremely intelligent
There is something of Bridget Jones's hopeless-but-adorable quality about Lucy ... Neill's hilarious depiction of the manifold daily perils of stay-at-home motherhood is so convincing that it soon looks like the most challenging job in the world - and Lucy is all the more sympathetic simply for staying afloat
If you're struggling to find your own inner yummy mummy, this is for you. After a few pages you'll want to make heroine Lucy Sweeney your best mate as her trials and tribulations wash away your own troubles
Above the usual class of post-baby fiction...an intelligent and funny look at modern parenting
This will have you laughing out loud with empathy