The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy
by Fiona Neill
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…
Reviews
“Hilarious… a literary phenomenon to rival Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It… Plays with the chaos and comedy of 30-something metropolitan maternity and brings it to an unexpectedly moving conclusion.” – Anna Wintour, Vogue
“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 – and Lucy is all the more sympathetic simply for staying afloat.” – Daily Telegraph
“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.” – Woman
