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Published: 30th September 2025
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Published: 1st November 2023
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Published: 31st January 2024
Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas
By (Author) Gill Sims
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
30th September 2025
7th November 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Humorous fiction
Spirits, liqueurs and cocktails
823.92
Paperback
320
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
220g
I romped through Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas, and I absolutely adored it Jilly Cooper
Tis the season to get trollied!
Mummy has always loved Christmas. Sure, the kids turn into demons, the dinner gets burnt to a crisp and Aunt Louisas general staggering inappropriateness sends Mummy reaching for the nearest maximum-strength festive tipple, but nevertheless, for her, Christmas is always special.
This year, she wants nothing more than to perfectly fig up the pudding and sit by the fire reading aloud from A Christmas Carol to a rapt, rosy-cheeked audience. But, just like all Mummys best-laid plans, this years Festive Vision is in danger of being totally derailed by her chaotic family. Theres not much chance of any action under the mistletoe, and the kids are just not playing ball.
Can Mummy find her silver lining after all and bring the whole family together for one moment of harmony, so they can finally proclaim Verily You Are the Queen of Christmas Or should she get stuck into the festive spirits and just let it all go
Such a great writer Jilly Cooper
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 didnt cause her enough trouble.
Gills 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.