Product Description

Calling all mums!



What would you do if your husband had a fling?



Have you ever had to keep a terrible secret from your kids?



Do you sometimes wish you had a life outside being a mum?



Are you pregnant and alone?



Caroline, Mark, Susan and Lisa are as different as the parenting problems they face and each has their own reasons for logging on to the Mums@Home website for the very first time.



At first they are cynical about the site – how can faceless people possibly help or understand what they are going through? But as the weeks pass and their family problems escalate, each of them begins to realise that Mums@Home has become a lifeline – somewhere to go for advice, to be heard, to escape, or to belong...



Sophie King captures the zeitgeist once again with this warm, moving and engaging look at modern parenting and finding friends.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #196859 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Review
‘There is a lot for women to relate to here’ (Katie Fforde )

Praise for THE SCHOOL RUN 'A lovely debut - warm and engaging' (Catherine Alliott )

About the Author
Sophie King is a pseudonym for journalist Jane Bidder, who writes for Woman magazine and contributes regularly to national newspapers and other women's magazines. She was runner-up in the Harry Bowling Award in 2002 and she also recently won the Elizabeth Goudge short story award. Her short stories appear often in national magazines, and under her own name she has written non-fiction books.

Customer Reviews

An easy but satisfying read
I finished this book in just a few hours and they were hours well spent. It's not a masterpiece but the characters are engaging and well written. I'm currently waiting for my first baby and I'm reading any novel with kids and parents i can find. Overall it's a nice little book for light readind but with a heart nevertheless. It gets four stars for successfully representing its genre.

If nothing else it made me realise I'm a very happy mum@home!
If you like the kind of fictional short stories that are usually found in women's magazines then you'll like this. Similar style, but I thought slightly better than Alexander McCall Smith's novels.

Basically it's about ordinary people with ordinary lives and whose characters I found a bit depressing as they all seemed so unhappy with their lot. I prefer books that delve a bit deeper into people and give me more of an emotional rollercoaster ride, food for thought or a more exciting plot. With this you could see where it was going all along. There were a couple of surprises but not on any major level.

Mums@Home
I received this book as part as a book ring. I have never read Sophie King before and I was not let down by Mums@Home. I would describe this is as chick-lit, very good chick-lit.

Here is the Amazon synopsis:

Love, laughter, and logging on...Calling all mums! What would you do if your husband had a fling? Have you ever had to keep a terrible secret from your kids? Do you sometimes wish you had a life outside being a mum? Are you pregnant and alone? Caroline, Mark, Susan and Lisa are as different as the parenting problems they face and each has their own reasons for logging on to the Mums@Home website for the very first time. At first they are cynical about the site - how can faceless people possibly help or understand what they are going through? But as the weeks pass and their family problems escalate, each of them begins to realise that Mums@Home has become a lifeline - somewhere to go for advice, to be heard, to escape, or to belong...Sophie King captures the zeitgeist once again with this warm, moving and engaging look at modern parenting and finding friends.

This was very well written, I managed to read 200 pages in one sitting. I wanted to get to the end to see how everything would turn out, but when the book ended I wanted there to be more so I could see what was happening in their lives. King put in twists which I did not see coming, which added to the enjoyment of the read.

My favourite characters were in fact the children. Although I loved all the characters and engaged with them all, I found myself forming a soft spot for the children as they had to face difficulties in their adolescent as well as baring the problems their parents were facing.

The site seemed cool, just like this one! I like the idea of making new friends and coming for advice, a chat and friendship, which is why I'm on here, and one of the things I just loved about the book.

My only complaint was at the end of every chapter there were extracts from emails to people which were fragmented and sometimes unclear who they were aimed at and from.

A really enjoyable, fun, quick read.

9/10