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The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy
Fiona Neill
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Description for The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy
Paperback. Motherhood, it seems, has more pitfalls than Lucy 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 blows up in her face. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306. Nice copy, with some shelfwear. Good to very good
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099502883
SKU
KST0026813
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Fiona Neill
Fiona Neill is a features writer for The Times Magazine and author and creator of its hugely popular 'Slummy Mummy' column. After working abroad for six years, as a foreign correspondent in Latin America, she returned to the UK to become assistant editor at Marie Claire and then The Times Magazine. Brought up in Norfolk, she now lives in London ... Read more
Reviews for The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy
This slice of angst and affluenza is several cuts above the rest ... witty, observant and supremely intelligent
The Times
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 - ... Read more
The Times
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 - ... Read more