Complemented with sharp insights from family members Hi Mum is full of over 1500 classic one-liners from a rich variety of red-hot mammas such as Joan Rivers Roseanne & Marge Simpson Covering all the joys of motherhood celebrated matriarchs deliver belly laughs & offer pearls of maternal wisdom on such topics as morning sickness & stretch marks playground politics raising hormonal teenagers frenzied mealtimes & dreary household chores On being pregnant' Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside'
- Rita Rudner On mealtimes' For thirty years my mother served the family nothing but leftovers The original meal has never been found'
- Calvin Trillin On freedom' The first time you leave your child at school you're faced with a tough decision
- down the pub or back to bed?'
- Jo Brand