by Serena Terry
Tara Gallagher is 36, pregnant and this is her life. Well, a good few weeks of it. As if organising the perfect Gallagher Christmas and birthing the perfect baby weren’t enough, she manages to fall out big time with her sexist boss and winds up under house arrest with her errant teenage daughter. And what should her wondering eyes should appear, but a kinky empty Amazon box addressed to her husband and her trampy mammy Pammy who has dumped the pool boy?
This is a comeback tour of Mammy Banter, and Serena Terry gives us a fresh and hilarious take on some all-to-real situations that will surely set you off laughing. Even if Christmas isn’t your thing, Tara and her friends The Rebel Mums and their homespun wisdom (the remedy for removing pee stains is a keeper) will warm your cockles at any time of the year. And you will be comforted by the easy banter between the friends, lovers and relatives. It will feel like your favourite warm cardy, with all its moth holes, spew stains and bobbles.
The writing is spot-on funny with the kind of sassy comedy that miscommunication and misplaced toys allow. The storytelling is faultless and barrels along toward the inevitable crescendo and catharsis of showdown at ToteTech. If you like intelligent funny writers like Michelle Gallen or Dawn O’Porter or the comedy that Motherland or Scummy Mummies deliver, you will love spending a few hours reading Tara Gallagher’s latest adventures.
Thanks to NetGalley UK and HarperCollins for the eARC.
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