Mr Make Believe

This story of a stay-at-home mother's misadventures is a fun read that imperfect mums' everywhere will adore ( The Sun ). While her husband Matt's career takes off, Marnie Martin is left with the task of pairing socks and locating Lego. His late nights at the office are turning into late nights who knows where else, and they haven't had a proper conversation in weeks, sex in months, or a full night's sleep in years. Marnie's journalism career has morphed into writing a food column. But even that turns into disaster when Marnie gets distracted by a daydream about her movie-star crush, Maddox Wolfewhich leads to a missed deadline and a case of food poisoning. There's only one option left for Marnie: blogging. As the anonymous Mrs Make Believe, Marnie starts spilling secrets and becomes the voice of messed-up mothers everywhere. But she never could have imagined that her celebrity daydream would walk off the screen and into her reality, turning her already muddled world totally on its head ... This compulsively readable and entertaining novel ( Daily Mail) is a funny, sexy, clever book which brilliantly reflects the chaos of motherhood and marriage (Alison McGarragh-Murphy, editor of The Motherload ). Funny ... fabulously fresh and achingly honest ... I couldn't put it down. Alex Brown, #1 bestselling author of The Secret of Orchard Cottage