Für alle, die angesichts ihres Alltags fast den Verstand verlieren, aber nie den Humor. Eine Familienkomödie, die aus dem Wahnsinn ein Lesevergnügen zaubert.Kate Reddy steht vor ihrem 50. Geburtstag und fragt sich, wo ihr Leben geblieben ist. Dabei ist das Alter längst nicht ihre einzige Sorge: Kate plagt sich mit zwei Teenagern, kümmert sich um kränkelnde Schwiegereltern und eine Mutter, die zunehmend auf Hilfe angewiesen ist. Und sie sucht den Wiedereinstieg ins Berufsleben, da ihr Mann beschlossen hat, dem Hamsterrad Ade zu sagen und die Kunst der Achtsamkeit zu erlernen. Als sich dann auch noch eine verflossene Liebe bei Kate meldet, wird es kompliziert ...Liebevoll ausgestattete Ausgabe mit Leinenrücken und Lesebändchen. Weitere berührende Wunderraum-Geschichten finden Sie in unserem kostenlosen aktuellen Leseproben-E-Book »Einkuscheln und loslesen – Bücher für kurze Tage und lange Nächte«
Allison Pearson Book order (chronological)
Allison Pearson is an acclaimed journalist whose debut novel garnered an award. Her writing delves into the intricate lives of modern women, often infused with wry humor and sharp social observation. Pearson masterfully captures the pressures and dilemmas faced in balancing career, family, and personal aspirations. Her style is marked by wit and empathy, offering readers narratives that are both deeply resonant and thoroughly entertaining.
How Hard Can It Be?
- 480 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Kate Reddy is counting down the days until she is fifty, but not in a good way.
I Think I Love You
- 357 pages
- 13 hours of reading
A novel by a writer who understands the female psyche, and observes the male with a wary eye. This novel, set in the '70s and the present day, is about teen obsession, rites of passage and one girl's infactuation with David Cassidy. It's about love in many forms, but first love in particular, how it shapes us and imprints us
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, Nativity Play, Check Dow Jones, Cancel Hygienist, Squeeze 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 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 An Uproariously Funny And Achingly Sad Novel, Allison Pearson Captures The Guilty Secret Lives Of Working Mothers, The Self-Recriminations, Comic Deceptions, Forgeries, Giddy Exhaustion And Despair As No Other Writer Has Ever Done. With Fierce Irony And A Sparkling Style, She Brilliantly Dramatises The Dilemma Of Working Motherhood At The Start Of The 21St Century.