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Item Details
Title:
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I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT
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By: |
Allison Pearson |
Format: |
Hardback |
List price:
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£12.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0701173025 |
ISBN 13: |
9780701173029 |
Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
1 January, 2002 |
Pages: |
368 |
Description: |
A victim of time famine, 35 year-old Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. A comedy about failure, a tragedy about success, this novel is the untold story of the professional working mum at the start of the 21st century. |
Synopsis: |
A victim of time famine, thirty-five-year-old Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. As she runs between appointments, through her head spools the crazy tape-loop of every high-flying mother's life: client reports, bouncy castles, Bob The Builder, transatlantic phone calls, dental appointments, pelvic floor exercises, flights to New York, sex (too knackered), and stress-busting massages she always has to cancel (too busy). Factor in a controlling nanny, a chauvinist Australian boss, a long-suffering husband, two demanding 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. Pearson brings her sharp wit and compassionate intelligence to this hilarious and, at times, piercingly sad study of the human cost of trying to Have It All. Women everywhere are already talking about the Kate Reddy column which appears weekly in the Daily Telegraph, and recommending it to their sisters, mothers, friends and even their bewildered partners.This fictional debut by one of Britain's most gifted journalists is the subject of a movie deal with Miramax rumoured to be for almost $1million and has sold around the world, sparking bidding wars in Spain, Germany and Japan. Everyone is getting Reddy for Kate. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Chatto & Windus |
Prizes: |
Short-listed for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2003 |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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