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Book Choice for May 2009
The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy
Synopsis
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...
About the Author
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 with her husband and three children.
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