The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy - Fiona Neill

The Secret Life of the Slummy Mummy “A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple” This year, on Mother’s Day, my daughter bought me a book. She also bought her prospective motherinlaw a book, too. Her prospective motherinlaw got one called ‘Mother’s Day’. I, however, got one called ‘The Secret Life of the Slummy Mummy’! I didn’t feel hurt by this, I thought it was funny, and also, probably the most appropriately titled one for my mothering. Not that I consider myself to be particularly slummy, there are worst homes than mine, but to be fair, the majority are much tidier. I will call the book Slummy Mummy from now ...  Read the complete review

A few weeks after my daughter was born I was doing the weekly shop in Sainsbury's when I noticed they had several books on sale. I had a quick look and almost immediately the cover of this book caught my eye. Being a new mummy, anything mummy related got my attention. I read the back of the book and thought to myself "this book may well make me feel better about the things I am not managing to do now I am a mum". Without any hesitation it was added to my trolley. The book is really easy to read and is one of those books you can pick up and put down at will - something which was very handy for me as with a newborn time to sit and read was something I ...  Read the complete review

Lucy Sweeney is a full time mother to three boys. Lucy's mantra to mothering seems to be deal with it as it comes. She has a laundry pile that rivals small mountains, a car that doubles as a waste dump, and wears tartan pyjamas on the school run. No, Lucy is not your domestic goddess. With secret credit card debt, masses of unpaid parking tickets and constantly losing things including passports, credit cards and contact lenses, she is a one-woman disaster zone. Barely managing to make it through the days against the challenges of Alpha Mum (a highly organised competitive mother at the school), Yummy Mummy No.1 (high fashion, tiny waistline), while ...  Read the complete review

In the age of yummy mummies, it's quite refreshing to read about the other side of the story - those who don't have their well behaved children sitting neatly in spotless white outfits while they themselves show off their size zero bodies in the latest designer frocks. Those who are in fact more slummy than yummy. Lucy Sweeney is one of those mothers, the sort who count the day as successful if they remember to put a coat on top of PJs for the school run, and if the children's projectile vomiting incidents stay in the single figures. She first came to life in a column in the Saturday Times magazine, and her story continues now in this book. I really like the ...  Read the complete review

It's half term, no school runs to make, no clubs to taxi the kids to. All I need is some 'chick lit' to help me through the week. I choose The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy' because I guess that's how I see myself. I hate housework, and hope the characters of this novel will be a little like me!! The main character, and heroine of the story, is scatty mother of three boys, Lucy Sweeny. She is surrounded by Yummy Mummy No 1 (self explanitory), highly competative Alpha Mum and Sexy Domesticated Dad ( no prizes for guessing what might happen here!). Lucy, in her life before kids was a senior producer at the BBC, but now stuggles with the daily perils of being a ...  Read the complete review