Why Mummy Drinks: The Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Author

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In the end, I suppose that's what a marriage comes down to: finding the one special person you want to annoy and be annoyed by for the rest of your life.” Ellen is a stressed-out working-mum. She's got high hopes of having a perfect life, but the gulf between her aspiration and her reality is an ever-widening chasm of chaos.

I enjoyed the book. It was very funny but rather risqué. I particularly found the Easter Egg hunt and the Fire Work display very memorable. If there was a problem with the book, it was the bad language and too much information about her Sisters children's Toilet habits." Maureen. I was happy to get to the end. Too much use of the F word for me. Not a fan of the Diary format. “ L. Billings.I’m not interfering. I just don’t think you’ve thought this through properly, so don’t get annoyed with me because I’m helping.’ I’ve always loved Christmas. Ever since I can remember, I’ve been convinced every year that this year – this year it would be perfect. This would be the year when everyone’s dreams would come true: the children would frolic, my carefully chosen gifts would be received with rapturous expressions on rosy-cheeked faces, I’d bear the bronzed and gleaming turkey to the table on some sort of (yet to be sourced) Golden Platter to stunned Oohs! and Ahhs!, and everyone would say, ‘Oh Ellen, this is marvellous. Verily, you are the Queen of Christmas’ before Simon kissed me under the mistletoe. There are several areas if this book that I feel could have been lifted straight out of my life, although I don't have a sister in law with 6 kids who thinks nothing gif turning up unannounced or with little warning. JUST LEAVE ME ALONE, MUM! And I haven’t ruined Christmas, that’s such a horrible thing to say to me!’ Not really. I only need to pay for my flight and ski hire. Raff ’s folks have a chalet out there, and they’re giving me my ski pass for Christmas. And I’ve got a part-time job, you know that, so I’ve enough saved for my flight and everything.’

Spot on, and honest encounter of bringing up children and family life in general. Being a mother, wife and general everything. There may also be drink involved occasionally. Ok there will be drink involved and it's more than occasionally.Oh my God, Mother, it’s only bloody Verbier, will you stop saying “Abroad” like a xenophobic Nancy Mitford character?’