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Very funny and well written, it made me laugh out loud and I loved the humor and the characters.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine
Bestselling author Gill Simms returns with her fourth and final instalment in the ‘Why Mummy.....’ series with “Why Mummy’s Sloshed”.
Ellen has been a wife and mother for so long that she’s a little bit lost. Now her beloved ‘moppets’, Jane and Peter, are ready to finish with school and a different set of parenting problems are arising. Amidst the chaos of A-Levels, driving tests and trying to impress the opposite sex, she’s doing her best to keep her family afloat. She’s feeling overwhelmed and under appreciated, juggling work with family and trying to hold it all together while remaining sane.
As a mother of three grown up sons, I could immediately relate to Ellen and the family situations she finds herself in. It felt instantly reassuring to know I haven’t been alone with the same issues that Ellen was experiencing. From the terrible two’s, starting school and hormonal teenager angsts, this series covers EVERYTHING and more! Both Jane and Peter are just so typical of today’s youth, caring more about keeping up with Instagram and how fast the broadband speed is. There was so many funny scenes too - when Ellen offered to look after her best friend’s overactive and demanding toddler Edward for a night, you just know there will be trouble. I don’t believe there’s a parent around who hasn’t had experience with their child and Sudocrem, an impossible product to remove from clothes and carpet!
I particularly liked how the story was set out in a diary form covering a full year, with each of the events narrated within the correct month, e.g. the taking of exams in June and the dreaded expectation of results in August. This made for a highly realistic time line of events that sounded all too familiar and I knew exactly what issues was on their way!
The author has obviously learnt everything first hand and has managed to convey every experience a parent could endure, funny, sad, serious or lighthearted, into a fabulous set of books every mother (and possibly fathers - for a once in a lifetime chance to see inside a women’s mind) should read.
“Why Mummy’s Sloshed” is quite a rollercoaster ride and I did feel quite breathless at times, it’s not a stress free read but then neither is parenting! And in the words of the author, “the bigger the kids, the bigger the drink!”
A highly recommended comedy fiction series for parents, these are so much more practical than any parenting book you could read and for aspiring parents.....you have been warned!
4 stars
Ellen has been a wife and mother for so long that she’s a little bit lost. Now her beloved ‘moppets’, Jane and Peter, are ready to finish with school and a different set of parenting problems are arising. Amidst the chaos of A-Levels, driving tests and trying to impress the opposite sex, she’s doing her best to keep her family afloat. She’s feeling overwhelmed and under appreciated, juggling work with family and trying to hold it all together while remaining sane.
As a mother of three grown up sons, I could immediately relate to Ellen and the family situations she finds herself in. It felt instantly reassuring to know I haven’t been alone with the same issues that Ellen was experiencing. From the terrible two’s, starting school and hormonal teenager angsts, this series covers EVERYTHING and more! Both Jane and Peter are just so typical of today’s youth, caring more about keeping up with Instagram and how fast the broadband speed is. There was so many funny scenes too - when Ellen offered to look after her best friend’s overactive and demanding toddler Edward for a night, you just know there will be trouble. I don’t believe there’s a parent around who hasn’t had experience with their child and Sudocrem, an impossible product to remove from clothes and carpet!
I particularly liked how the story was set out in a diary form covering a full year, with each of the events narrated within the correct month, e.g. the taking of exams in June and the dreaded expectation of results in August. This made for a highly realistic time line of events that sounded all too familiar and I knew exactly what issues was on their way!
The author has obviously learnt everything first hand and has managed to convey every experience a parent could endure, funny, sad, serious or lighthearted, into a fabulous set of books every mother (and possibly fathers - for a once in a lifetime chance to see inside a women’s mind) should read.
“Why Mummy’s Sloshed” is quite a rollercoaster ride and I did feel quite breathless at times, it’s not a stress free read but then neither is parenting! And in the words of the author, “the bigger the kids, the bigger the drink!”
A highly recommended comedy fiction series for parents, these are so much more practical than any parenting book you could read and for aspiring parents.....you have been warned!
4 stars
funny
fast-paced
Another hilarious instalment from Gill Sims: this light-hearted, easy read is guaranteed to make you smile and reminisce about the teenage years, either your children's or your own.
Peter and Jane are now teenagers, in the midst of their GCSE's and A-Levels and, in Jane's case, preparing for university life. Ellen meanwhile, is conflicted between the potential freedom that this will bring and the potential loneliness that comes from no longer being "needed" by her children.
However, first there is the all-important matter of ensuring the teenagers revise, eat healthily, pass their driving test, don't get too drunk, don't spend their life on Instagram/games consoles and occasionally sleep. How Ellen has time for friends and a love life is beyond me.
As always, Ellen takes on the burdens of others as well as her own. Her ex-husband Simon shares his new girlfriend woes and her best friend Hannah finds it hard to cope with her feral toddler (we've all been there) along with her teenagers and busy husband.
It is not all fun and games though as Ellen does give us frequent glimpses into the painful reality of single parenting as well as parenting from a working mother's perspective. However, the casual care free style of writing doesn't make the reader become bogged down in this: it only makes Ellen and her life much more real to us.
Why Mummy's Sloshed is so relatable - from spending a fortune on ParentPay to trying to get sudocrem out of the carpet to shouting "love you darling" very loudly to embarrass your kids - everything is so honest and real, it was a pleasure to read.
I feel like Ellen and I would be good mates and would cackle with the best of them over a bottle or three of pinot grigio. In saying that, my boys haven't reached the teenage stage yet and I'm not sure this book is making me look forward to all the smells that come with them!
Peter and Jane are now teenagers, in the midst of their GCSE's and A-Levels and, in Jane's case, preparing for university life. Ellen meanwhile, is conflicted between the potential freedom that this will bring and the potential loneliness that comes from no longer being "needed" by her children.
However, first there is the all-important matter of ensuring the teenagers revise, eat healthily, pass their driving test, don't get too drunk, don't spend their life on Instagram/games consoles and occasionally sleep. How Ellen has time for friends and a love life is beyond me.
As always, Ellen takes on the burdens of others as well as her own. Her ex-husband Simon shares his new girlfriend woes and her best friend Hannah finds it hard to cope with her feral toddler (we've all been there) along with her teenagers and busy husband.
It is not all fun and games though as Ellen does give us frequent glimpses into the painful reality of single parenting as well as parenting from a working mother's perspective. However, the casual care free style of writing doesn't make the reader become bogged down in this: it only makes Ellen and her life much more real to us.
Why Mummy's Sloshed is so relatable - from spending a fortune on ParentPay to trying to get sudocrem out of the carpet to shouting "love you darling" very loudly to embarrass your kids - everything is so honest and real, it was a pleasure to read.
I feel like Ellen and I would be good mates and would cackle with the best of them over a bottle or three of pinot grigio. In saying that, my boys haven't reached the teenage stage yet and I'm not sure this book is making me look forward to all the smells that come with them!
funny
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I got sent this book to read and review by readers first. I loved it, it’s funny and witty and real.
*I received a free ARC of this novel, with thanks to the author, Harper Collins UK and NetGalley. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.*
Fans of Gill Sims’ Why Mummy… series, or her highly successful Peter and Jane blog, will be familiar with the format by now, as this is Ellen’s fourth and final adventure in the world of adulting (and parenting).
Peter and Jane are now hulking teenagers, obsessed with online gaming and driving lessons, and Ellen finally has a bit of time and space to assess her life and think about her future identity once the children finally fly the nest. Uh oh!
Yes, now that the #parentingfail days are more of a memory, Ellen is looking at her personal and professional life and worrying about all of it indiscriminately. Almost ex-husband, Simon, suddenly seems to want to be involved more, there are ominous rumours of a coming merger at work, and a hot neighbour has moved in next door… but could he be a serial killer? Or missing a willy? Because some things never change, and Ellen is still prone to wild forays into her very vivid imagination at inopportune moments!
Gill Sims captured the highs and lows of parenting small children in a light, funny and eminently relatable way, and now she does the same for parenting nearly-adults and considering becoming an adult yourself. The result is a lovely, feelgood romcom that will have you alternately aawwwww-ing and giggling.
I didn’t think I could bear for this series to ever end, but Sims has achieved the impossible in bringing Ellen’s adventures to a satisfying conclusion, leaving the reader feeling replete with warm fuzzy feelings. Until one’s own Moppets notice and ruin it, of course!
I nibbled my bun and sipped my tea as the hour slowly passed. Seventeen years ago, it didn’t seem possible that I’d be sitting and waiting to hear if Jane had passed her driving test. What was I doing seventeen years ago? Apart from feeling old and thinking I was already a dried-up husk because I was the ancient and decrepit age of thirty-one, which now, with hindsight, seems utterly ridiculous. I’m forty-eight and look upon women of thirty-one as mere babies! They are but ingénues, so hopeful and young, with not the slightest idea of how much cronedom lies ahead of them, or just how much they have yet to dry up. They’re all hash-tagging madly on Instagram about things I don’t understand like ‘bulletproof coffee’ and kimchi and starting podcasts. Anyway. Seventeen years ago. Baby Music. I used to go to Baby Music on Friday mornings. Every Friday morning, sitting in a circle on a hard, cold church-hall floor, attempting to pin a furious and writhing Jane on my lap while clapping along with the other smiley-happy mummies to an irritating song about an old brass wagon.
– Gill Sims, Why Mummy’s Sloshed
Review by Steph Warren of Bookshine and Readbows blog
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2020/10/09/why-mummys-sloshed-gill-sims/
Fans of Gill Sims’ Why Mummy… series, or her highly successful Peter and Jane blog, will be familiar with the format by now, as this is Ellen’s fourth and final adventure in the world of adulting (and parenting).
Peter and Jane are now hulking teenagers, obsessed with online gaming and driving lessons, and Ellen finally has a bit of time and space to assess her life and think about her future identity once the children finally fly the nest. Uh oh!
Yes, now that the #parentingfail days are more of a memory, Ellen is looking at her personal and professional life and worrying about all of it indiscriminately. Almost ex-husband, Simon, suddenly seems to want to be involved more, there are ominous rumours of a coming merger at work, and a hot neighbour has moved in next door… but could he be a serial killer? Or missing a willy? Because some things never change, and Ellen is still prone to wild forays into her very vivid imagination at inopportune moments!
Gill Sims captured the highs and lows of parenting small children in a light, funny and eminently relatable way, and now she does the same for parenting nearly-adults and considering becoming an adult yourself. The result is a lovely, feelgood romcom that will have you alternately aawwwww-ing and giggling.
I didn’t think I could bear for this series to ever end, but Sims has achieved the impossible in bringing Ellen’s adventures to a satisfying conclusion, leaving the reader feeling replete with warm fuzzy feelings. Until one’s own Moppets notice and ruin it, of course!
I nibbled my bun and sipped my tea as the hour slowly passed. Seventeen years ago, it didn’t seem possible that I’d be sitting and waiting to hear if Jane had passed her driving test. What was I doing seventeen years ago? Apart from feeling old and thinking I was already a dried-up husk because I was the ancient and decrepit age of thirty-one, which now, with hindsight, seems utterly ridiculous. I’m forty-eight and look upon women of thirty-one as mere babies! They are but ingénues, so hopeful and young, with not the slightest idea of how much cronedom lies ahead of them, or just how much they have yet to dry up. They’re all hash-tagging madly on Instagram about things I don’t understand like ‘bulletproof coffee’ and kimchi and starting podcasts. Anyway. Seventeen years ago. Baby Music. I used to go to Baby Music on Friday mornings. Every Friday morning, sitting in a circle on a hard, cold church-hall floor, attempting to pin a furious and writhing Jane on my lap while clapping along with the other smiley-happy mummies to an irritating song about an old brass wagon.
– Gill Sims, Why Mummy’s Sloshed
Review by Steph Warren of Bookshine and Readbows blog
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2020/10/09/why-mummys-sloshed-gill-sims/
I was given a free copy of this book from Readers First in exchange for an honest review.
This is the first book I’ve read in this series, and I have to say I was quite surprised at how much I enjoyed the book. I wasn’t sure what the book would hold, whilst I expected some laughs and jokes, I suppose I wasn’t expecting it to be quite as funny as I found it.
My initial worry was that it would be full of over the top smugness, a mum who harped on about how she effortlessly manages home life, work life and still had time to hang out with her friends. I felt it might net mums inspired - if you know, you know.
Thankfully, it was largely relatable and not over the top with the drama and making it seem unbelievable. I thoroughly enjoyed all of the swearing and learning new insults.
I enjoyed the format of the book as being split like a diary, this helped as there was a point to work towards and helped build drama.
I would say personally I wasn’t the biggest fan of the unnecessary capitalisation for every group of people or type of people throughout the book, I’m not sure if this is a theme that runs through the series of books by this author. I am now looking forward to reading the other books.
This is the first book I’ve read in this series, and I have to say I was quite surprised at how much I enjoyed the book. I wasn’t sure what the book would hold, whilst I expected some laughs and jokes, I suppose I wasn’t expecting it to be quite as funny as I found it.
My initial worry was that it would be full of over the top smugness, a mum who harped on about how she effortlessly manages home life, work life and still had time to hang out with her friends. I felt it might net mums inspired - if you know, you know.
Thankfully, it was largely relatable and not over the top with the drama and making it seem unbelievable. I thoroughly enjoyed all of the swearing and learning new insults.
I enjoyed the format of the book as being split like a diary, this helped as there was a point to work towards and helped build drama.
I would say personally I wasn’t the biggest fan of the unnecessary capitalisation for every group of people or type of people throughout the book, I’m not sure if this is a theme that runs through the series of books by this author. I am now looking forward to reading the other books.
Very funny and well written, it made me laugh out loud and I loved the humor and the characters.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine