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'Mummy, are you putting me to bed tonight?'
‘ No, darling’
Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. She can juggle
nine different currencies in five different time zones and get herself and
two children washed and dressed and out of the house in half an hour.
A victim of time famine, Kate counts seconds like other women count
calories. As she hurtles between appointments, through her head spools
the crazy tape-loop of the working mother's life: must remember client
reports, bouncy castles, transatlantic phone call, uativity play, check
Dow Jones, cancel hygienist, squeeze that sagging pelvic floor, make
time for sex. Factor in a manipulative nanny, an Australian boss who
looks at Kate's breasts as if they're on special offer, a long-suffering -
but definitely suffering - husband, her quietly aghast in-laws, two
needy children, and an e-mail lover, and you have a woman juggling so
many balls that some day soon something's going to hit the ground.
In a novel that is at once uproariously funny and achingly sad Allison
Pearson captures the guilty secret lives of working mothers, the self-
recrimination, the comic deceptions, the forgeries, the giddy
exhaustion, the despair, as no other writer has done. With fierce irony
and a sparkling style, she brilliantly dramatises the dilemma of working
motherhood at the start of the 21st century.
I Don't Know Haw She Does It is a major film with Miramax. A comedy about failure, a tragedy about success, it marks the fictional debut of a glorious new talent.
Allison Pearson was born in South Wales. Her 'Kate Reddy' columns'
from which this novel grew, appeared weekly the Daily Telegraph. She
has been named Critic of the Year and Interviewer of the Year in the
British Press Awards, is a weekly columnist in the London Evening
Standard and a feature writer for the Daily Telegraph, and was a founding
member of BBC2's Late Review. She lives in London with the New Yorker
writer Anthony Lane and their two small children.
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