She can break your balls Kate Reddy's tough on men & the causes of men. She will break your heart Don't read this book in public. People hate to see a grown man cry. You sleep with her Now wake up to her What you don't know about women would fill a book. This is that book ...

Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager & mother of two. She can juggle nine different currencies in five different time zones & get herself & two children washed & dressed & out of the house in half an hour. A victim of time famine, Kate counts 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, bouncy castles, transatlantic phone call, nativity play, check Dow Jones, cancel hygienist, squeeze sagging pelvic floor, make time for sex. Factor in a manipulative nanny, an Australian boss who looks at Kate's breasts as if they're on special offer, a long suffering husb&, her quietly aghast in-laws, two needy children & an e-mail lover, & you have a woman juggling so many balls that some day soon something's going to hit the ground. In an uproariously funny & achingly sad novel, Allison Pearson captures the guilty secret lives of working mothers, the self-recriminations, comic deceptions, forgeries, giddy exhaustion & despair as no other writer has ever done. With fierce irony & a sparkling style, she brilliantly dramatises the dilemma of working motherhood at the start of the 21st century. ...

A victim of time famine, thirty-five-year-old Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. As she runs between appointments, through her head spools the crazy tape-loop of every high-flying mother's life: client reports, bouncy castles, Bob The Builder, transatlantic phone calls, dental appointments, pelvic floor exercises, flights to New York, sex (too knackered), & stress-busting massages she always has to cancel (too busy). Factor in a controlling nanny, a chauvinist Australian boss, a long-suffering husb&, two demanding children & an e-mail lover, & you have a woman juggling so many balls that some day soon something's going to hit the ground. Pearson brings her sharp wit & compassionate intelligence to this hilarious &, at times, piercingly sad study of the human cost of trying to Have It All. Women everywhere are already talking about the Kate Reddy column which appears weekly in the Daily Telegraph, & recommending it to their sisters, mothers, friends & even their bewildered partners. This fictional debut by one of Britain's most gifted journalists is the subject of a movie deal with Miramax rumoured to be for almost $1million & has sold around the world, sparking bidding wars in Spain, Germany & Japan. Everyone is getting Reddy for Kate. ...

Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager & mother of two. She can juggle nine different currencies in five different time zones & get herself & two children washed & dressed & out of the house in half an hour. A victim of time famine, Kate counts 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, bouncy castles, transatlantic phone call, nativity play, check Dow Jones, cancel hygienist, squeeze sagging pelvic floor, make time for sex. Factor in a manipulative nanny, an Australian boss who looks at Kate's breasts as if they're on special offer, a long suffering husb&, her quietly aghast in-laws, two needy children & an e-mail lover, & you have a woman juggling so many balls that some day soon something's going to hit the ground. In an uproariously funny & achingly sad novel, Allison Pearson captures the guilty secret lives of working mothers, the self-recriminations, comic deceptions, forgeries, giddy exhaustion & despair as no other writer has ever done. With fierce irony & a sparkling style, she brilliantly dramatises the dilemma of working motherhood at the start of the 21st century. ...

No one can deny the impact that Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell has made. His acerbic put-downs & witty one-liners have sparked ...

The Little Princess hates having her hair combed. There are always tangles & it always hurts! When the King agrees to put her in charge of combing, she makes sure that everyone in the castle has beautifully combed hair, but she leaves her own until last...with disastrous consequences. ...

The Little Princess doesn't want to go to hospital, & does everything she can to avoid it. But when she is finally forced to go, she finds that she really rather likes it. Back home again, she decides she wants to go back. After all, they treat her like a princess in there! ...

Acclaimed Hollywood filmwriter & director Nora Ephron turns her sharp powers of observation back onto herself in these autobiographical essays as she examines the indignities of ageing for the Baby Boom generation. Filled with wickedly witty autobiographical pieces like 'I Hate My Handbag', ' Blind as a Bat' & ' What I Wish I'd Known', this book offers the consolation that no matter how much your neck sags, your boobs droop, your skin wrinkles & your children don't appreciate you, someone has been there before you.

Nora Ephron captrues the essence of what it means to be a grumpy old woman, in a laugh-out-loud funny, frank & unexpectedly moving book that will be an irresistible treat for any woman who reads it.

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