This book held such promise for me and looked like just the sort of humour I needed to get me through these dull, dark, depressing days of Covid19.
However, although I enjoyed this fourth instalment of a stressed out Mummy Ellen trying to cope single-handedly with her almost feral teenage children, Peter and Jane, work, homelife, friends ex-husband Simon, and a slight drinking problem maybe?! The writing is very insightful and I wonder if some of it may be based on the Author's real life, as in places it reads a bit like an autobiography. It certainly resonated with me in lots of places and made me remember some of the disasters, triumphs and troubles my two children put me through growing up.
I did not think their teenager years had quite as much humour as their childhood, but maybe that is because you can laugh it off more when they are children, but when they are adults they answer back!
However, although I enjoyed this fourth instalment of a stressed out Mummy Ellen trying to cope single-handedly with her almost feral teenage children, Peter and Jane, work, homelife, friends ex-husband Simon, and a slight drinking problem maybe?! The writing is very insightful and I wonder if some of it may be based on the Author's real life, as in places it reads a bit like an autobiography. It certainly resonated with me in lots of places and made me remember some of the disasters, triumphs and troubles my two children put me through growing up.
I did not think their teenager years had quite as much humour as their childhood, but maybe that is because you can laugh it off more when they are children, but when they are adults they answer back!