Why Mummy Drinks
Written by Gill Sims
Narrated by Gabrielle Glaister
4/5
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About this audiobook
The smash hit Sunday Times bestseller.
Tuesday 8th September
First day back at school. I am going to 100% nail being a school mummy this year. I can totally do this. Yes, this year is definitely going to be much better – I am absolutely not going to shout at the children, let them stuff their faces with crisps or goggle away on the iPad. And I most certainly will not slump on the sofa at the end of the day, glugging wine and muttering ‘FML’ repeatedly.
Unfortunately I have not yet actually managed to buy the bento boxes for their lunches or book jiu jitsu lessons, and I will have to learn to like green tea, as it is foul, and I have not yet mastered French plaits, but I am quietly confident that these are mere details in my grand master plan…
It is Mummy’s 39th birthday. 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?’
But 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.
Instead, she clutches a large glass of wine, muttering ‘FML’ over and over again. Until she remembers the gem of an idea she’s had…
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Reviews for Why Mummy Drinks
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An absolutely hilarious book. Light hearted and fun. I would definitely recommend this book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A very funny, light read. Could definitely relate to some of the parenting struggles.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
This is good, I haven’t finished it yet, but its entertaining and funny.
The mum’s tone and complaints start to grate a little after a while, but she won my sympathy back at Christmas.
Perhaps i’m too American and Rude, but I would have thrown Amariss and Bardo out of my house long before the smoothie incident . - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My lasting impression of Why Mummy Drinks is that it is satire, the classic British "send-up" and not to be taken seriously for a minute as the real life of an English mother/wife/part time IT worker. There is a certain type of English author who writes about her children as if they are wild animals. I first noticed this years ago with The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neill. No, I do not really believe that these mums need a whip and a chair to control their uncontrollable offspring. Satire, readers, satire!That said, I found Why Mummy Drinks laugh-out-loud funny; truly the kind of book I can't put down. I realize it could definitely be not everyone's glass of Chardonnay. If it's not, you'll be on a rant about Ellen's many faults, her exaggeratedly impossible children, her husband who is portrayed as generally useless, and a collection of relatives that would make me emigrate to another country and change my name.This book seems to be an expanded version of a blog the author writes in the British media titled Peter & Jane, the names of Ellen's two children. Some reviewers have said the blog is better than the book. This is the first time I had heard of Gill Sims and I, for one, am delighted.