Allison Pearson
Author
Series
Kate Reddy novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Delightfully smart and heartbreakingly poignant, Allison Pearson’s smash debut novel has exploded onto bestseller lists as “The national anthem for working mothers.” Hedge-fund manager, wife, and mother of two, Kate Reddy manages to juggle nine currencies in five time zones and keep in step with the Teletubbies. But when she finds herself awake at 1:37 a.m. in a panic over the need to produce a homemade pie for her daughter’s...
Author
Series
Kate Reddy novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Allison Pearson's brilliant debut novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, was a New York Times bestseller with four million copies sold around the world. Called "the definitive social comedy of working motherhood" (The Washington Post) and "a hysterical look--in both the laughing and crying senses of the world--at the life of Supermom" (The New York Times), I Don't Know How She Does It introduced Kate Reddy, a woman as sharp as she was funny. As Oprah...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
p2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1974 Wales, thirteen-year-old Petra and her friend Sharon are obsessing over the Ultimate David Cassidy Quiz, a contest that will fly the winner to America to meet the teen idol. Flash forward to 1998 where Petra, middle aged with a broken marriage, discovers a letter that declared her the winner of the contest long ago, a letter her mother kept hidden from her. Now 24 years after the contest, the aged Petra and Sharon cash in the contest and travel...