Meet Kate Reddy fund manager and mother of two. A victim of time famine Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. Factor in a manipulative nanny an Australian boss who looks at Kates breasts as if theyre 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 somethings going to hit the ground. In an uproariously funny and achingly sad novel Allison Pearson brilliantly dramatises the dilemma of working motherhood at the start of the twenty-first century.
