Publisher's Synopsis
"...a grown-up novel that is hilarious, heartbreaking and brimming with the bitter-sweet tang of all our lives." Tony Parsons, author of MAN AND BOY I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT is a comedy about failure, a tragedy about success, and marks the debut of a glorious new talent in fiction. Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two who feels like a victim of time famine, counting seconds like other women count calories. As she hurtles between appointments, through her head spools the crazy tape-loop of the working mother's life: must remember client reports, nativity play, check Dow Jones, bouncy castle, make time for sex. Factor in a manipulative nanny, a chauvinistic boss, a long-suffering - but definitely suffering - husband, her quietly aghast in-laws, two needy children, and an e-mail lover, and you have a woman juggling so many balls that soon something's going to hit the ground.
