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    Slummy Mummy
    Slummy Mummy
    Slummy Mummy
    Audiobook12 hours

    Slummy Mummy

    Written by Fiona Neill

    Narrated by Katherine Kellgren

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    About this audiobook

    A smart, laugh-out-loud debut novel about a deeply flawed but endearing stay-at-home mom, a book for anyone who took Bridget Jones to heart a decade ago-and now has kids. Lucy Sweeney has three sons, a husband on a short fuse, and a tendency toward domestic disaster. It has been years since the dirty laundry pile was less than three feet high, months since she remembered to have sex, and weeks since her toddler started using the trash can as a toilet. Lucy is living in a constant state of emergency, caught between perfectionist Yummy Mummy No. 1 and competitive Alpha Mum, making it hard for her to remember exactly why she exchanged her career and sanity for less than blissful domesticity. When she begins a flirtation with Sexy Domesticated Dad, a father from the school car-pool lane, the string of white lies to cover up the trail of chaos and illicit desire starts to unravel and disaster looms. Slummy Mummy: The Secret Life of Lucy Sweeney is a hilarious novel about the dilemmas of modern marriage and motherhood for those who never discovered their inner domestic goddess. Pitch-perfect and satisfyingly smart, it does for the stay-at-home mother what Allison Pearson's blockbuster bestseller I Don't Know How She Does It did for the working mom: It offers a lovable, flawed character who resonates, entertains, and undoubtedly has it worse than you do.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherListen & Live Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2007
    ISBN9781593163778
    Slummy Mummy

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    • 3/5
      A tired litany of the Mommy lost herself once she had kids and her misadventures on trying to find herself again without destroying her kids, her marriage, or her self-respect. Funny, at times, but not funny or original enough to keep my interest.
    • 4/5
      I do not read a lot of chic-lit, but this was the best one I've read! Fun and easy!
    • 1/5
      Gave up before p 50 - couldn't sympathize, much less empathize - not only shouldn't she have married her husband in the first place*, but she shouldn't have kids - she doesn't act like a grown-up. What she should do most of all is raise her kids to be more responsible - they should be helping with chores not expecting her servitude. And yes she should be able to recognize that one woman telling another a bunch of shoulds" sometimes is quite apt.

      *Yes I know I've barely met Tom. Maybe she's just whining about his "flaws" (differences?) in the beginning and by the end she'll have learned her lesson and realized he's wonderful. If so, then she should've appreciated him all along.

      And if she's a slow learner, and will mature and become more likable over the course of the book, I want some clue to that effect now, so I don't get to the end and find I still can't stand her.

      Gee - quite a review for something I barely dipped into. Of course, others' reviews helped me decide to give up on it, and helped me see where it was going."
    • 2/5
      This was a fun book that would please fans of Bridgett Jones. Very british and vey funny.
    • 4/5
      A main character that I could believe in. One who told us how it was. Her life was still a deal away from mine, much more glamerous, but there were still some of the characters that haunt my life like the yummy mummy and the alpha mum. so well described and so true to some of the people I actualy know. It was good to see these lables rounded out to real people too, making the story more real and not cardboard as may of these mum novels seem to be. To be honnest this is not a book I will ever rave about, I will probably have forgotten it within a couple of weeks. But while I was reading it I could immerce myself in the characters and story. A pleasent place to have been
    • 4/5
      An easy read that's like an old friend - comforting and entertaining.

      We all know someone who is or will be a Yummy Mummy or an Alpha Mum or a Slummy Mummy or a Sexy Domesticated Dad. We all have that friend who will be in one relationship after another and never settles down.

      Perhaps this book would appeal more to a middle class audience - I cannot relate to the lifestyles at all. But to the situations and the characters? I think fondly of them.
    • 4/5
      Firmly in the chicklit genre, this novel follows the exploits of Lucy Sweeney as she deals with mid-marriage slump and the temptations of sexy stay at home dads and the appeal of her friends' lives with their more exciting adventures. There were plenty of funny situations, but the underlying dilemma is a serious one and even Lucy can see this playing out in the lives of her friends - but still she is determined to be blind to her own danger.
    • 3/5
      This book was genuinely funny and clever. I laughed out loud a lot. And of course I felt a lot better about myself afterwards :D
    • 3/5
      Sometimes I find books like these, where things keep going wrong for the main character, make me inwardly cringe. However this one isn't like that. Also, although it's based on a weekly column in a newspaper, it isn't just repeats of those columns, but a series of intertwining stories in the lives of the Slummy Mummy and her friends and acquaintances: Yummy Mummy No. 1, Alpha Mum and Sexy Domesticated Dad.It's very readable and uplifting.
    • 2/5
      I kept reading this book, honestly, because I kept waiting for it to speed up. Throughout the whole thing, I could feel the potential, but it never quite got there. Disappointing.