Can I Give Them Back Now?
  • Published: 3 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780224086257
  • Imprint: Square Peg
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $34.99

Can I Give Them Back Now?

The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting

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A must have for all new mums and dads - at last, a laugh-out-loud book about the darker moments of parenthood.

A is for Anxiety, Alcohol and awful Activities. B is for Bedtime, Baking and Boredom. C is for Childcare and Cooking With Your Coat on. N is for Not Swearing (bloody frustrating) and S is for Soft Play Places, Sniffing Babies' Arses (to see if they've filled their nappies - are there not easier ways of finding out?) and Sex (see also L, for lack thereof).

Can I Give them Back Now? puts two fingers up to the pervasive notion that parenthood is an eternally rewarding experience. Taking a wry, down-to-earth and humorous look at life with young children, it taps into the very normal, but hard-to-admit ambivalence that so many parents feel about raising kids.

Realistic, often dark and occasionally shocking, Joanna Simmons and Jay Curtis' brilliantly alternative A-Z of parenting is essential reading for all mums and dads who really, really love their kids, but...
  • Published: 3 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780224086257
  • Imprint: Square Peg
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the authors

Joanna Simmons

Joanna Simmons is a freelance writer and journalist. She has written several books on interiors, a humorous 'non-guide' to parenting called Can I Give Them Back Now? and a series of fiction for young readers, the first of which, Pip Street - A Whiskery Mystery, was published by Scholastic on 4 March 2013. She lives in Brighton.

Can I Give Them Back Now? with Jay Curtis was published by Square Peg in June 2009.

Jay Curtis

Jay Curtis is the co-author of THE AARGH TO ZZZZ OF PARENTING with Joanna Simmons. Writers and mothers of small children, they both live in Brighton.

Praise for Can I Give Them Back Now?

Made me laugh out loud twice and snort at least once. Would love to publish it for Mothers' Day as an antidote to all that pastel guff out there.

Sam Fanaken, Sales Manager

So true to the reality and Dunkirk spirit of parenthood.

Tom Drake-Lee, Sales Director and father of two

Really funny, I laughed out loud at the definition of childcare! Love the humour! It's exactly what I find funny.

Ruth Warburton, Publicity Manager and mother of two

Hilarious and horribly, horribly accurate. Speaking as a Dad, I say publish and be damned!

Roger Bratchell, Marketing Director and father of two