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Posted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 by Leah
Book review by Ainsley!
Fiona Neill’s Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy was my first prize read on my recent holiday! Based on a newspaper column of the same name, this book had me in stitches on my sun lounger. It’s a sweet tale of Lucy Sweeny (our slummy mummy) and her allies (Yummy Mummy, Sexy Domesticated Dad) as she struggles to gain domestic order as a stay-at-home-mum, something she’s found far more challenging than her previous career as Newsnight producer. Lucy and her three little boys dodge one entertainingly funny disaster after the next.
Lucy’s arch nemesis, Alpha mum, wastes no opportunity to ridicule her (lack of) parenting skills and general slumminess, which include turning up at the gates in pyjamas. With her three boys running rampage around their North London home, it’s not long before she starts lusting after Sexy Domesticated Dad – spelling only one thing, and that’s trouble.
Read this book for the comedy – switch your brain into neutral and enjoy Fiona Neill’s easy way of raising a giggle or three. The finale is dramatic; fast paced and will have you rooting for Lucy until the end. It’s perfect laughter therapy for after a hard day.
Rating: 4/5
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Posted on Monday, July 6th, 2009 by Leah
Ready for…love? Ready for…a new job? Ready to…grow up? Ready for…change? Ready for…life?
Life has been good for Ali, Molly, Ben and Sarah, things have seemed easy and uncomplicated and they have had the world at their feet. But now as they say goodbye to their twenties and thirty looms they begin to question themselves…
Is Ali really ready to get married and become a wife, or is everything moving too fast? Molly has followed her dreams and changed jobs, but has she made a big mistake? Ben is still living at home - surely it’s time he moved out? And will Sarah ever find someone to love or will she always be single? Life is full of twists and turns and change is inevitable.
Now they must ask themselves…are they ready for it?
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Posted on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 by Chloe
Isabel Bookbinder is a wannabe author and works for her local paper measuring the column inches on the weeks stories. Isabel decides she is going to be abest-selling author, but is annoyed when her best friend gets an agent before she does.
So Isabel decides to work with one of the countries best selling authors as a PA to get her foot on the ladder but things don’t quite go to plan, and Isabel realises she hasn’t actually written a word of this “best-selling” novel she is convinced she can write…
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Posted on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 by Leah
Isabel Bookbinder might not be leading the most glamorous life ever – measuring column inches at the Saturday Mercury isn’t exactly the job of her dreams – but luckily she’s developed a foolproof plan to change all that.
Reasons to become a bestselling author:
Plentiful opportunities to swish new Super-hair
Sophisticated launch parties (with smoked salmon blinis)
Am bound to captivate the delicious Joe Madison
Can finally prove to father that Really Am Not a Waster
Potential setbacks:
Don’t yet have ‘Yoko’ bag, as carried by arch rival Gina D… or honed size-eight figure (useful for interviews)
Hmm. Am inadvertently at the centre of a major political sex scandal
Paparazzi are doorstepping my parents and boring boyfriend Russell
Haven’t actually got round to putting pen to paper yet
Admittedly some of the setbacks are a little daunting, but Isabel’s sure that a woman of her ingenuity – and creativity – can find a way …
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Posted on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 by Chloe
Mummy Said The F-Word is a book based around Caitlin Brown, a mother of 3 young children whose life is turned upside down when she accidentally finds out her husband Martin is having an affair with dopey Daisy from the water-cooling firm.
Cait kicks him out, and takes on single parenthood with gusto, relying on her best friend and single-dad Sam to share her woes. Cait soon finds she needs a job, and so ends up working as a agony aunt at her friend Millie’s magazine Bambino, and is convinced her doling out advice is fraud. But soon she starts getting emails from a man who signs his emails ‘R’….
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Posted on Friday, June 26th, 2009 by Chloe
Rachel Covington works as a Sales Rep for a holidays company, and is one of the top performers in her section. She knows that she’s quite attractive and uses it to her advantage to get the men she wants, them dumps them when she’s had enough.
But Rachel finds herself in a role reversal when she’s realises she’s fallen for Nick Maxwell, a colleague at her company. The two have a dalliance together and the result is Rachel’s life changing forever…courtesty of the baby growing inside of her.
Will Rachel be able to give up her beloved single life to become a mother?
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Posted on Monday, June 22nd, 2009 by Leah
Barabara knows she’s dying. In response to this she writes letters to her daughters, Hannah, Amanda, Lisa and Jennifer telling them her thoughts on dying as well as revealing some long-kept family secrets.
Lisa is terrified of commitment, Jennifer is unhappily married, Amanda just cannot settle down and Hannah is a teenager forced to grow up quickly because her mother dies. Each letter to the girls helps them move on and also gives them answers to some long-kept questions.
Can Barbara’s husband Mark also move on from his wife’s death?
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Posted on Thursday, June 18th, 2009 by Chloe
Barbara has been diagnosed with cancer, and realises she isn’t going to be around for her family much longer. So she decides to write her four daughters a series of letters, each personal and individual for them, so that they have a little bit of their mother left after she has gone.
Her daughters are devastated at their loss, but will they manage to draw any comfort from their mothers letters?? Will they be able to come together as a family to miss their mother properly, and will the letters set them free from the lives they are living in?
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