![]() ![]() I also read aloud parts to my fiancé to exclaim – look it’s not just me and you! There’s others! So of course, you want to reach for the wine with her. You read it, you feel you’re there with her and feel the same frustration. The language is explicit and as Ellen’s husband Simon retreats to the TV and controls the remote – I think the same explicits would be used by many of us Mums. My children are younger, and not at school age, but after hearing tales of the “school run” from my Mummy friends this book is 100% relatable.Įven with younger children, I felt Ellen’s (protagonist) pain when it came to meal times and counting down the hours till that much needed glass of wine. ![]() Hilarious from the get-go, Why Mummy Drinks had me laughing out loud in a way a book has failed to do in a long time. Until she remembers the gem of an idea she’s had…” Instead, she clutches a large glass of wine, muttering ‘FML’ over and over again. She is staring down the barrel of a future of people asking if she wants to come to their advanced yoga classes, and polite book clubs where everyone claims to be tiddly after a glass of Pinot Grigio and says things like ‘Oooh gosh, are you having another glass?’īut Mummy does not want to go quietly into that good night of women with sensible haircuts who ‘live for their children’ and stand in the playground trying to trump each other with their offspring’s extracurricular activities and achievements, and boasting about their latest holidays. ![]()
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