I Don't Know How She Does It Book

A victim of time famine thirty-five-year-old Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. As she runs between appointments through her head spools the crazy tape-loop of every high-flying mother's life: client reports bouncy castles Bob The Builder transatlantic phone calls dental appointments pelvic floor exercises flights to New York sex (too knackered) and stress-busting massages she always has to cancel (too busy). Factor in a controlling nanny a chauvinist Australian boss a long-suffering husband two demanding children and an e-mail lover and you have a woman juggling so many balls that some day soon something's going to hit the ground. Pearson brings her sharp wit and compassionate intelligence to this hilarious and at times piercingly sad study of the human cost of trying to Have It All. Women everywhere are already talking about the Kate Reddy column which appears weekly in the "Daily Telegraph" and recommending it to their sisters mothers friends and even their bewildered partners.This fictional debut by one of Britain's most gifted journalists is the subject of a movie deal with Miramax rumoured to be for almost $ 1 million and has sold around the world sparking bidding wars in Spain Germany and Japan.Everyone is getting Reddy for Kate.

'A bible for the working mother' OPRAH WINFREY 'It may change your life' OBSERVER'I can't think of a woman who wouldn't want this book' INDIA KNIGHT The twentieth anniversary edition of Allison Pearson's first novel that became a global sensation, now with a new introduction from the author.Meet Kate Reddy, hedge-fund manager, wife and mother of two. Always time-poor, Kate must monitor nine currencies in five time zones but also keep in step with the Teletubbies. Factor in a manipulative nanny, piggish colleagues, a long-suffering husband, her quietly aghast in-laws, two needy children and an email lover, and you have a woman juggling so many things that some day something's going to hit the ground. And that something might just be Kate. In an uproariously funny and achingly sad novel, Allison Pearson brilliantly dramatises the dilemma of working motherhood at the start of the twenty-first century.'The definitive social comedy of working motherhood' WASHINGTON POST

Meet Kate Reddy fund manager and mother of two. She can juggle nine different currencies in five different time zones and get herself and two children washed and dressed and out of the house in half an hour. A victim of time famine Kate counts seconds like other women count calories.