I have to say I got to 90% through and gave up on it - so many other books I want to read. I just have ZERO faith in myself that I'd ever be able to balance the two without buckets of Xanax and a therapist on speed dial. It's a well worn plot about a high flying career woman who tries to balance bringing up kids with a career. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. I did have a few chuckles and ploughed through. I was curious to read the book it was based on and I am glad I did because as usual, the movie left out not only important portions of the story, it really scaled back on the sometimes brutal but refreshing honesty of the author as she assesses her relationship to her husband, her father and her children. Much. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. 22nd century female assassin takes on the mob in 1927 silent film Hollywood. Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2011. Please try again. Nearly every female lucky enough to have both a child and a byline . This novel about the roller-coaster ride of modern motherhood brings its thrills and travails into such terrifying focus that it's practically an IMAX experience, with Lego, Disney videos, and corporate e-mails flying at you from all directions. A young mother must let go of the past to have any chance at a future. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Too close to the truth to be funny but it really is, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 2, 2017. But when she finds herself awake at 1:37 a.m. in a panic over the need to produce a, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time, Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World, The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton: A Hilarious Yet Poignant Family Saga, Red Mountain: A Novel (Red Mountain Chronicles Book 1). Bought this for my wife. Bored because I've already lived the career-loving Mom life, so this was all old news to me; annoyed because the character was too whiny and preachy for my taste.

There was a problem loading your book clubs. Allison Pearson, an award-winning journalist and author, is a staff writer for the London. Incredibly authentic with a warm wit that encases readers in a guilt free hug. And it helped that a lot of it was laugh out loud funny. Hedge-fund manager, wife, and mother of two, Kate Reddy manages to juggle nine currencies in five time zones and keep in step with the Teletubbies. If I had kids, I would totally be Kate. . And they call this progress." They say we can’t have kids together. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2018. We saw and heard Allison at the Hay Festival in May , very good but( me thinks she is slightly against the Male animal ) and also full of herself ? Sold by Media Pros and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. I made it about halfway through this book. For fans of Maeve Binchy. I watched the movie with SJP and Pierce Brosnan and thought it was cute. Otherwise it is very well written and fast moving. 'To have it all' means you have to sacrifice something.

Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. I expected to identify with the main character, but I really didn't. . Will Evie find the inner strength to embrace the scandal or will she let it tear her family apart? "Best book I've read in over 50 years... since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Kate Reddy has it all--the fantastic husband, the two adorable kids, the high-powered job in finance, the eczema, the spoiled nanny, the half-finished renovations, the stress of knowing the stay-at-home moms will always outbake her at school functions, and the fantastic wardrobe of Armani and power shoes. It is very close to the bone.

For every woman trying to strike that impossible balance between work and home-and pretending that she has-and for every woman who has wanted to hurl the acquaintance who coos admiringly, "Honestly, I just don’t know how you do it," out a window, here’s a novel to make you cringe with recognition and laugh out loud. Anxiety. Please try again. If you like Chick Lit, you'll love Lucky - the story of a lottery winner who makes the costly mistake of agreeing to be on a reality TV show. They say we can’t get married.

Laughed lots despite things being too close to the truth to be funny. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In life, the game doesn't end at checkmate. "The best book I've read in over fifty years... since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." I was waiting for the 'can't wait to see what will happen next' part, but it never came.

funny . Taking a hard look as well as a sacrilegious poke at all the questions that women ask themselves, Pearson brings honesty, warmth, and compassion to the everyday situations we all find ourselves in. . Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2018. has strip-mined Pearson's theme how to squeeze babies, marriage and a high-powered job into a day that cannot be stretched beyond 24 hours. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2018. But how long, in fact, will Kate be able to do it—the sleepless nights, the piggish colleagues, the censorious in-laws, the text message from the nanny, received mid-meeting, informing her that she may have lice?

. It is every wife’s worst nightmare! EVERYTHING in this book just confirmed that motherhood is not for me! Have kids or no? This book mirrors the chaotic lives of guilt ridden working mothers. .

After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. With panache, wisdom, and uproarious wit," I Don't Know How She Does It" brilliantly dramatizes the dilemma of every working mom. As a mom/wife/career woman with similarly dysfinctional thorny love-hate relationships with my own parents, the book really resonated with me. She finds a way to hide and build a life new, that is, until three people from her past start showing up. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Don't get me wrong - I admire the people who can do it! Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 5, 2018.

Delightfully smart and heartbreakingly poignant, Allison Pearson’s smash debut novel has exploded onto bestseller lists as “The national anthem for working mothers.” Hedge-fund manager, wife, and mother of two, Kate Reddy manages to juggle nine currencies in five time zones and keep in step with the Teletubbies. This is like Bridget Jones all grown up married with kids, but much more raw and honest. About I Don’t Know How She Does It. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. This is a hard review to write, because on many levels Allison Pearson really does hit the mark in terms of detailing what it is like to be a modern mother - the guilt, the messes, lack of time and sleep, the sense of being obliged to do too much and keep everyone happy. It is really quite rare that the heroine of a book is such a high earner and it may be a comfort to the less highly qualified that all working women are in the same boat.

She reminds me of one of my colleagues that is constantly in crisis. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. When an unusual group of Americans embark on a bus tour of Ireland, they get a vacation they'll never forget. . As the cliche goes, she's one of those people that make working moms look bad.

When a young boy with Autism loses his mother, his grandmother must enlist the help of his estranged father, recently returned from Afghanistan. Ara's husband may be dead, but the game is just getting started. It opens at 1 A.M. in the kitchen of thirty-five-year-old Kate Reddy, hedge-fund manager and mother of two, who is hitting Sainsbury mince pies with a rolling pin so that they can pass for home-made at her daughter's school: "Now we can manage the orgasms, but we have to fake the mince pies. I am already in the middle of my second reading.

Instead she leads a hectic, nonstop life, busily trying to meet everyone’s needs and live up to the standards of motherhood that she believes are reached by the stay-at-home moms. An award-winning journalist, she was named Newcomer of the Year at the British Book Awards for her first novel, I Don't Know How She Does It. And let's not forget Winston, the taxi-driver-slash-philosophy-student who helps Kate remember the candies of her childhood. . That she sacrifices her husband, though only temporarily, and the hint of a love affair, is the only wrong note in this book. Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2018. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Probably the people involved in making the movie thought the audience would not relate to the main character if she was not totally likeable but in fact, I related to the character written in the book much more because it was so much more honest. Unable to add item to List. And Get a Life, Before It's Too Late. Learn more about the program. A suspenseful contemporary historical novel of divided Koreas, America, divided families, idealism, North Korean prison camp, revenge, and love. Get to Work: . It almost worked. . . Oh, but we did. - LibraMystic. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Something went wrong. “Fast . Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It blends humor and realism into an amazing novel of the modern woman. . A sparkling novel about juggling marriage, kids, and job (and getting some sleep) . Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2018. . Previous page of related Sponsored Products. Hedge-fund manager, wife, and mother of two, Kate Reddy manages to juggle nine currencies in five time zones and keep in step with the Teletubbies.



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