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Why Mommy Swears

Published
Mar 2019
Main Genre
General Fiction General Fiction
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Pages
352

About This Book

Why Mommy Swears is the much anticipated new novel from Gill Sims, author of the hilarious Why Mommy Drinks and online sensation Peter and Jane.

It's every parents' nightmare – the start of the school holidays – and instead of sitting in the sun, reading a book over a cold, crisp glass of Pinot Grigio, Mummy has two bored moppets to attend to. After frantically booking sports camps, child minder slots, not to mention time off work, Mummy is exhausted. But this is only the beginning…

After being dragged to join the school's PTA in the new term by an annoyingly kind-spirited neighbour, Mummy is stuck with organising the Christmas Fayre and pleasing all the overly disapproving parents. In combination with getting to know her father's surprise new glamorous (and much younger) wife, and being forced to spend more time with her narcissistic mother, life isn't cutting her much of a break. What more could possibly happen?

Reviews

"God, she's funny" – Jilly Cooper

"Honest and very funny – it's a tale that mums will identify with" – The Sun

"Sim's latest offering is a hilarious follow-up to her bestselling debut… you'd be forgiven for thinking the blogger behind Peter and Jane couldn't pull it off twice – but she has" – The Sunday Post

About the author

Gill Sims is the author of the hugely successful parenting blog and Facebook site ‘Peter and Jane'. Her first book Why Mummy Drinks was the bestselling hardback fiction debut of 2017, spending over six months in the top ten of the Sunday Times Bestseller Charts, and was shortlisted for Debut Novel of the Year in the British Book Awards. Her globally bestselling Why Mummy series has now sold over a quarter of a million copies.
She lives in Scotland with her husband, two children and two Border terriers, because apparently one terrier didn't cause her enough trouble.
Gill's interests include drinking wine, wasting time on social media, trying and failing to capture her lost youth, and looking for one of the dogs when he decides to go on one of his regular jaunts, while trying to stop the other one eating unspeakable things.

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Sep 2019 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN 0008352453
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Mar 2019 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN 0008298785
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First Edition Mar 2019 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN 0008298793
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Mar 2019 HarperCollins ISBN B07H8SWL71
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