Motherland

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Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. But when Fran realizes she has failed her children one too many times, and begins to suspect her husband is having an affair, she knows she has hit rock bottom. I thought it impossible to come up with a pseudo - I wanted to be Paige Turner but Matt (my husband) said that was really naff.

Filled with acute, often bitingly funny observations about motherhood, friendship, and the claustrophobia of suburbia, this pitch-perfect novel will resonate with any woman who has ever been stricken with self-doubt. But with her confidence shot and a husband who no longer knows how to help her, most days all she sees is the bottom of a wine glass.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Literate and well written, 37 is a searingly intimate and compulsively readable novel, a very modern diary of a (not quite) mad housewife.

But she hits rock bottom when she realises she can’t even solve the problems of her own two children. He was always fairly good at drawing, so his parents packed him off to an art school in London to learn a trade.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. In the mad, bad days following her breakup with the georgous but despicabel Kake, Amy took a pseudonym and wrote a novel detailing the incredible sexploits of one Donna Sanderson, the 'Indiana Jones of Shagging', a book that 'pits fresh-faced girly wit against sweaty pelvis-pounding eroticism' (Cosmopolitan), 'subverts the chick-lit genre with a coruscating shock of raw, hard sex' (Time Out), and disgusts this reviewer to the very core of his being' (Daily Telegraph). Elle a du mal à se lever, ne sait plus comment s'habiller, oublie les entraînements de foot de son fils et les paniers repas de sa fille, éprouve les pires difficultés à faire bonne figure devant les impitoyables mamans à la sortie de l'école, et elle sent bien que les excuses de son mari pour rentrer tard du bureau ne sont pas purement professionnelles.

She learns to thank them for her salvation — not because they are there for her, but because she discovers how to be there for them. 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The best thing about being an author is that you can work from home and so the smoking ban has absolutely no effect on you whatsoever. On the eve of her thirty-seventh birthday, Fran Clark finds herself in a role she would never have envisioned: that of a surprisingly desperate housewife. Things are looking good and with the arrival of Karl, a multi-talented dancer, her love life's on the up too.Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U. The mothers running her school’s equivalent to the PTA act and react just like catty women everywhere.