I Don't Know How She Does It - Allison Pearson Reviews

“I Don’t Know How She Does It” is a novel by Allison Pearson about Kate Reddy a fund manager and mother of 2 small children. It’s described as “A comedy about failure, a tragedy about success.” Kate’s main problem is there is not enough hours in the day to get everything done that she needs to do. She works long hours trying to prove to her ...

Kate Reddy would appear to have it all, high flying career, loving husband and two lovely children. However, she’s a woman juggling too many balls and in danger of gong mad. I don’t know how she does it follows a year in the life of 35 year old funds manager Kate Reddy. The book grew out of a column in the Daily Telegraph, it consists ...

Look up the word “busy” in a dictionary and, if it were the kind of world where random people’s faces were used to illustrate meanings, you’d see a picture of Kate Reddy. Fund Manager, mother of two, devoted wife (or not), our heroine is the type of person who thinks sleeping is a waste of precious time. Why, think of all ...

My mother recommended this book to me, and being an avid reader in search of some lighter reading I thought I would enjoy it. I am a semi-fan of chic-lit. I enjoyed "Bookends" by Jane Green but hated most of her other stuff. "Rachel's Holiday" is excellent, "Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married" is not. I thought ...