I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
Allison Pearson
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
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. But when she finds herself awake at 1:37 a.m. in a panic over the need to produce a homemade pie for her daughter's school, she has to admit her life has become unrecognizable. With panache, wisdom, and uproarious wit, I Don't Know How She Does It brilliantly dramatizes the dilemma of every working mom.
Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.76
Publisher
Anchor Books
Publish Date
August 26, 2003
Pages
368
Dimensions
5.1 X 8.0 X 0.9 inches | 0.75 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780375713750
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About the Author
Allison Pearson, an award-winning journalist and author, is a staff writer for the London Daily Telegraph. Her first novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, became an international bestseller and was translated into thirty-two languages. It was a major motion picture, adapted by Aline Brosh McKenna and starred Sarah Jessica Parker. Her most recent novel, I Think I Love You, is set to become a stage musical. She is a patron of Camfed, a charity that supports the education of more than a million African girls (www.camfed.org). She lives in London with her husband, the New Yorker writer Anthony Lane, and their two children.
Reviews
"Fast . . . funny . . . heartbreaking. . . . You root for Kate the whole length of her roller coaster ride." --The New York Times Book Review "The national anthem for working mothers." --Oprah Winfrey "A comic wonder: wildly hilarious, achingly sad, perfectly observed." --The Miami Herald "The book every working woman is likely to devour. . . . A hysterical look--in both the laughing and crying senses of the word--at the life of Supermom." --The New York Times "Think of Kate Reddy as Bridget Jones' older, harried, married working-mother-of-two sister. . . . Hilarious." --Entertainment Weekly "Perfectly captures the driven days and frequently sleep-deprived nights of that modern mammal, the working mother . . . with acute humor, piercing insight and more than a touch of tenderness." --New York Daily News "The definitive social comedy of working motherhood." --The Washington Post
