![]() ![]() ![]() This is the first time I had heard of Gill Sims and I, for one, am delighted. Some reviewers have said the blog is better than the book. 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. I realize it could definitely be not everyone's glass of Chardonnay. Satire, readers, satire!That said, I found Why Mummy Drinks laugh-out-loud funny truly the kind of book I can't put down. No, I do not really believe that these mums need a whip and a chair to control their uncontrollable offspring. I first noticed this years ago with The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neill. ![]() There is a certain type of English author who writes about her children as if they are wild animals. Loved this book I follow the authors comedic blog which is a hilarious and totally relatable account of daily middle-class life. My 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. ![]()
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