Why Mummy Drinks

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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 Mummys 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 offsprings 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 shes had

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God, shes funny Jilly Cooper

Honest and very funny its a tale that mums will identify with The Sun

Sims latest offering is a hilarious follow-up to her bestselling debut youd be forgiven for thinking the blogger behind Peter and Jane couldnt pull it off twice but she has The Sunday Post

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Gill Sims is the author and illustrator of the hugely successful parenting blog and Facebook site 'Peter and Jane'. She lives in Scotland with her husband, two children and a recalcitrant rescue Border Terrier, who rules the house. Gill's interests include drinking wine, wasting time on social media, trying and failing to recapture her lost youth and looking for the dog when he decides to go on one of his regular jaunts.