‘Why Mummy’s Sloshed’ by Gill Sims is a really funny page-turner that had me chuckling away as I read. I have to admit now, I have read none of her other books but after this one, I shall be on the lookout for them.
Mummy has been a wife and mother for so long that she’s a little bit lost. And despite her best efforts, her precious moppets still don’t know the location of the laundry basket, the difference between being bored and being hungry, or that saying ‘I can’t find it Mummy’ is not the same as actually looking for it! Amidst the chaos of A-Levels and driving tests, she’s doing her best to keep her family afloat, even if everybody is set on drifting off in different directions, and that one of those directions is to make yet another bloody snack. She’s feeling overwhelmed and underappreciated, and the only thing that Mummy knows for sure is that the bigger the kids, the bigger the drink.
A read that is genuinely funny and touching at the same time. The issues she brings are real ones that the majority of mums should be able to relate to, I definitely did. I have a daughter that moved to university halls so took me straight back there with all the emotions I felt then. The teenage years are ones in which we as parents begin a truly different set of challenges and Gill Sims nails them right on the head. This is a brilliant take on the years that had me laughing and crying.
I was enjoying the book so much I read it in one day. The characters are terrific and the scenarios well, as I said, brilliantly written as a mum of three, and with two of them I have visited them dreaded years of that ‘teenagery time’. The third is about to hit them and..oh my word, I think my drinks are about to go bigger as well!
In conclusion, I thoroughly enjoyed my time reading ‘Why Mummy’s Sloshed’, it is crammed full of laughs and is realistic enough to really relate to. A book I couldn’t put down…not even to get a bigger drink!
Thanks to Random Things Tours and Harper Collins for the fabulous book to bring you my thoughts today.
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