Mums@Home - Sophie King

A couple of months ago I read The School Run by Sophie King and really enjoyed it so I decided to look out for more books by this author and a few of her titles made their way on to my Amazon wish list! As a consequence, when it was my birthday a few weeks ago my husband bought me Mums@Home which I have just finished reading. The book is quite unusual in the fact that it is all about four people who stumble across a website which provides a forum for parents to discuss all sorts of issues, and although most of the book is written as a straightforward narrative, there are times when you are faced with a number of postings and messages from the website. This ...  Read the complete review

INTRODUCTION... I will pretty much read anything and everything. In fact I think there is only one book that I have ever started and failed to finish reading - that was a Stephen King novel called Insomnia. I kept falling asleep (I know that sounds like a joke, but it's true, honest!) So when I got a chick-lit type book from my sister at Christmas, I started reading it almost immediately as I had just finished a P.J. O'Rourke book and I thought it would make a change.....sometimes after a week of rich food, you just want scrambled eggs for dinner. I had never heard of the writer, Sophie King, but the praise for her previous book on the ...  Read the complete review