The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy
  • Published: 1 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099502883
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $32.99

The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy

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From the hugely popular Times columnist, her Sunday Times bestselling debut novel about modern motherhood.

'Hilarious ... a literary phenomenon to rival Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's
Diary and Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It ... Plays with the
chaos and comedy of 30-something metropolitan maternity and brings it to an
unexpectedly moving conclusion.' - Anna Wintour, Vogue

For Lucy Sweeney, motherhood isn't all astanga yoga and Cath Kidston prints. It's been years since the dirty laundry pile was less than a metre high, months since Lucy remembered to have sex with her husband, and a week since she last did the school run wearing pyjamas.

Motherhood, it seems, has more pitfalls than she might have expected. Caught between perfectionist Yummy Mummy No 1 and hypercompetitive Alpha Mum, Lucy is in danger of losing the parenting plot. And worst of all, she's alarmingly distracted by Sexy Domesticated Dad. It's only a matter of time before the dirty laundry quite literally blows up in her face...
  • Published: 1 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099502883
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Fiona Neill

Fiona Neill is an author and journalist who has written four Sunday Times bestsellers. Her first novel The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy, based on her hugely popular column in The Times, was an international bestseller that was published in twenty-five countries. Her last widely acclaimed novel The Betrayals was a Richard & Judy Book Club Pick 2017.

Fiona worked as a foreign correspondent in Central America for six years and returned to the UK as assistant editor on Marie Claire before joining The Times Magazine as assistant editor. She has written for many publications including The Times, Sunday Times Style, and The Telegraph Magazine as well as a screenplay of her first novel for the BFI.


Fiona grew up in rural North Norfolk and lives in London with her husband and three children.
Discover more about Fiona and her work at fionaneill.co.uk

portrait photo of Fiona Neill

Also by Fiona Neill

The Betrayals
The Haven
Beneath the Surface
The Good Girl
What the Nanny Saw
Friends, Lovers And Other Indiscretions
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Praise for The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy

The latest literary sensation

The Sun

If you're struggling to find your own inner yummy mummy, this is for you. After a few pages you'll want to make heroine Lucy Sweeney your best mate as her trials and tribulations wash away your own troubles

Woman

An hilarious read

Sainsbury’s Magazine

This slice of angst and affluenza is several cuts above the rest ... witty, observant and supremely intelligent

The Times

This will have you laughing out loud with empathy

Star Magazine

There is something of Bridget Jones's hopeless-but-adorable quality about Lucy ... Neill's hilarious depiction of the manifold daily perils of stay-at-home motherhood is so convincing that it soon looks like the most challenging job in the world - and Lucy is all the more sympathetic simply for staying afloat

Daily Telegraph

Above the usual class of post-baby fiction...an intelligent and funny look at modern parenting

Eve

The chaotic tale of the hapless Lucy will strike a chord with any woman who hasn't quite mastered the art of being a domestic goddess

Instyle UK

Perfect for failed domestic goddesses everywhere

heat

Smart, funny, and well-observed...a must read for any woman who loves to laugh at the often unintentional humor in domestic life

Karen Quinn, bestselling author of The Ivy Chronicles

Neill bucks the chick-lit trend with prose that's clever and endearing, and frazzled parents will love the way she nails the sticky, hair-pulling mania of domestic life

Washington Post

A deftly executed domestic comedy

Boston Globe

Hilarious . . . Plays with the chaos and comedy of 30-something metropolitan maternity and brings it to an unexpectedly moving conclusion

Anna Wintour, Vogue