Witty, observant and supremely intetlligent.

If you're struggting to find your own inner yummy mummy,this is for you.

There is something of Bridget Jones's hopetess-but-adorabte quatity about Lucy.

Hitarious ... a literary phenomenon to rival Heten Fietding's Bridget Jones's Diary and Al.tison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It" Anna Wintour, Vogue

For Lucy Sweeney, motherhood isn't at[ astanga yoga and Cath Kidston prints. It's been years since the dirty taundry pite was tess than a metre high, months since Lucy remembered to have sex with her husband, and a week since she tast did the schoot run wearing pyjamas.

Motherhood, it seems, has more pitfal.ts than she might have expected. Caught between perfectionist Yummy Mummy No.1 and hypercompetitive Al.pha Mum, Lucy is in danger of tosing the parenting pl.ot. And worst of at[ she's atarmingty distracted by Sexy Domesticated Dad. It's onty a matter of time before the dirty laundry quite titera[ty bl.ows up in her face...