基本信息·出版社：Arrow Books ·页码：432 页 ·出版日期：2008年01月 ·ISBN：0099524880 ·条形码：9780099524885 ·装帧：简装 ·正文语种：英语 · ...
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基本信息·出版社：Arrow Books
·页码：432 页
·出版日期：2008年01月
·ISBN：0099524880
·条形码：9780099524885
·装帧：简装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：邋遢妈妈秘史(小说)
内容简介 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...
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. 作者简介 Fiona Neill is a features writer for The Times Magazine and author and creator of its hugely popular 'Slummy Mummy' column. After working abroad for six years, as a foreign correspondent in Latin America, she returned to the UK to become assistant editor at Marie Claire and then The Times Magazine. Brought up in Norfolk, she now lives in London with her husband and three children.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. 编辑推荐 Sainsbury's Magazine `A hilarious read'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Telegraph `There is something of Bridget Jones's hopeless-but-adorable
quality about Lucy...one wonders at first how someone this disorganised
could ever have produced a flagship news programme, but 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'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Times `Several cuts above the rest. The writing is witty, observant and
supremely intelligent'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. In Style 'If Fiona Neill's column in the Times Magazine made you chuckle,
get your hands on a copy of her debut novel. 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'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Heat `Perfect for failed domestic goddesses everywhere'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 文摘 I spot the blurry outline of one of the fathers from school walking down the road towards us. He is talking on his mobile phone and running his fingers through his thick dark hair in a gesture familiar to me from the previous school year. It's Sexy Domesticated Dad, with his disarming opinions about what constitutes a nutritional lunch box and a penchant for mothers' coffee mornings. But it's not those characteristics which fix him in my mind. It is the way he looks and the way he moves. Something much more primeval. In fact, the less he says, the greater his appeal.
Even from a distance I can recognise his shape. In that strange juxtaposition of random thoughts it suddenly occurs to me, that in appearing at this moment, he has inadvertently become part of the bigger picture. I curse my hastily thrown together second choice of outfit: tartan pyjama bottoms under a long grungy coat in what I'd hoped would pass for casual chic in underwear-as-outerwear fashion. But it's too late to hide in the hedge with my pint-sized sons, so I surreptitiously check for yesterday's un-removed eye make-up in the wing mirror of a stationary 4 by 4.
I jump as the automatic window slides down and someone looks over the passenger seat to ask what I am doing.
'My God, you look like a panda,' says Yummy Mummy No 1, my sartorial nemesis. She opens her glove compartment to reveal spa-like contents including a half bottle of Moet, Jo Malone candle, and eye make-up remover pads.
'How do you do this?' I ask her, wiping my eyes gratefully. 'Do you have systems?'
She looks puzzled, 'No, just staff,' she says.
'Good summer?' I ask her.
'Wonderful, Tuscany, Cornwall, how about you?'
'Great,' I reply, but she is already glancing down the road and tapping her fingers on the steering wheel.
'Must go or I'll be late for my astanga class. By the way, are you wearing tartan? How directional.'
Sexy Domesticated Dad ambles down the street
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