AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. Meet Kate Reddy fund manager & mother of two. A victim of time famine Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. Factor in a manipulative nanny an Australian boss who looks at Kates breasts as if theyre on special offer a long-suffering husband her quietly aghast in-laws two needy children & an email lover & you have a woman juggling so many balls that some day somethings going to hit the ground. In an uproariously funny & achingly sad novel Allison Pearson brilliantly dramatises the dilemma of working motherhood at the start of the twenty-first century.