You're So Mummy

by Alex Manson-Smith, Sarah Thompson

You're So Mummy is an honest take on 21st-century motherhood that sticks two finger-puppets up at parenting manuals.This isn't a book mothers can turn to for advice. It's not going to tell you how to make your kid sleep, or how to get them into a good school, or anything useful at all in fact. Instead it's a hilarious look at what's happening inside the minds of once-normal women who now find themselves in charge of small people.Lifelong best friends Sarah Thompson and Alex Manson-Smith agree that motherhood is the best thing that's happened to either of them, but wanted to read a book that acknowledged what a royal pain in the arse it can be. So that's what they've written.From not having sex to losing it over food, You're So Mummy covers the real issues confronting today's mothers. For mums who have been around the park too many times, You're So Mummy will make you howl in grateful recognition.

288 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 26, 2016

Reviews

[Lward92hotmail.Co.Uk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy read, very relatable. Happy tears at the part with the dog poo and the husband's socks!

[Jo · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first chapter did make me laugh, but after that it turned into a sort of weird, backhanded advert for being childfree; the purported aim is to make mothers not feel alone, and if you're a very middle class white mother who hates her partner and doesn't enjoy her children at all, you might get a sense of literary high five from this, but I didn't. My baby is still very new, so maybe I just can't relate, but I found the relentless absence of any joy at all in being a mum quite depressing; I believe it's important for women to admit that motherhood isn't sunshine and rainbows, that's a very important conversation, but this book had six pages at the very end that discussed the upsides of kids (when they are eight - and don't forget it's shit again when they are teenagers). The writing was witty enough, it just made me sad.

[Kate Harris · Rating 4 out of 5]

A funny, witty and down to earth account of motherhood. I totally get these girls.

[Dasha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some parts were pretty funny.