Why Mummy Drinks

The hilarious debut book from Gill Sims, the author and illustrator of the hugely successful parenting blog and Facebook site `Peter and Jane’. It is Mummy’s 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 offspring’s 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 she’s had…

• Author: Sims, Gill
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 352
• Dimensions: 198x129mm