Slummy Mummy - Hardcover

Neill, Fiona

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594489440 ISBN 13: 9781594489440

Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover, 2007

Synopsis

A debut novel based on the popular London Times Magazine column by the same name follows the misadventures of stay-at-home mom Lucy Sweeney, who struggles between the chaos of caring for three young boys and her ideals as inspired by a perfectionist reality-television style program.

About this title

About the Author:

Fiona Neill is a features writer for the London Times Magazine, where her weekly “Slummy Mummy” column appears. She lives in North London with her husband and their three children.

From Publishers Weekly:

Like Bridget Jones before her, Lucy Sweeney, the heroine of this pastel-jacketed bonbon of a debut, is an endearing everywoman prone to disaster. But unlike her chick lit predecessor, Lucy is a married, stay-at-home mom who gave up an impressive career as a television news producer to care for her three sons in tony northwest London. Lucy exists in a constant state of chaos (she has lost 11 credit cards in the past year; she has seven different kinds of credit card debt; and her habit of wearing pajamas to drop off her children at school has hardly gone unnoticed). But, when a flirtation with Sexy Domesticated Dad (a fellow classroom parent) threatens to develop into something more, so too does Lucy's growing sense that somewhere in the domestic maelstrom I have lost myself. Whether she will find herself again—and, in time—is the question at the center of this crackling-with-wit debut. Although the plot careens toward an over-the-top, too-neat ending, London Times columnist Neill's delight in and empathy for her characters, her respect for the demands of domestic life and her tender evocations of motherhood more than compensate. (July)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1594489440
• ISBN 13: 9781594489440
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352