Il y a les mères exemplaires, toujours ponctuelles, pomponnées, et souriantes, celles qui préparent des gâteaux pour la kermesse et s'occupent des costumes du spectacle de fin d'année. Et puis il y a les autres : celles qui claquent la porte en laissant les clés à l'intérieur, et qui oublient systématiquement le goûter de leurs enfants... Lucy est clairement de celles-là ! Jusqu'à présent, malgré quelques loupés, elle s'était plutôt bien débrouillée avec sa petite famille. Mais les choses se compliquent quand elle commence à lorgner sur un parent d'élève, rencontré à la sortie des classes...
Mauvaise idée, Calamity Lucy. Très mauvaise idée !
Le quotidien effrayant de drôlerie de Lucy débarque dans La Vie secrète d'une mère indigne. Anna Wintour a trouvé le livre hilarant', comme nous.
Madame Figaro Hilarant... Un phénomène littéraire dans la veine du Journal de Bridget Jones.
Nanny required to take care of needs of busy professional London family When penniless student Ali Sparrow answers Bryony and Nick Skinner's advertisement her life changes overnight. She is catapulted into the privileged and excessive world of London's financial elite. At first everything is overwhelming - from twins who speak their own language to a teenage girl with weight issues and a son almost her own age. Then there is Bryony, who has one eye on her dazzling career and the other on Ali's failings. When boom turns to bust and a scandal erupts that suggests something corrupt has been hatched behind the Skinners' front door, their private life is suddenly public news. And as Ali becomes indispensible, she realizes she's witness to things she probably shouldn't see. But is she principled enough to keep the family's secrets when the press come prowling for the inside scoop? Or will she dish the dirt on the family who never saw her as anything other than part of the scenery?
PRE-ORDER NOW: the stunning new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Betrayals and The Good Girlbr>br>After a chaotic childhood, Grace Vermuyden is determined her own daughters will fulfil the dreams denied to her. Lilly is everyone''s golden girl, the popular, clever daughter she never had to worry about. So when she mysteriously collapses in class, Grace''s carefully ordered world begins to unravel. br>br>Dark rumours swirl around their tight-knit community on the edge of the Fens as everyone comes up with their own theories about what happened. Consumed with paranoia, and faced with increasing evidence that Lilly has been leading a secret life, Grace starts to search for clues.br>br>Left to her own devices, ten-year-old Mia develops some wild theories of her own that have unforeseen and devastating consequences for the people she loves most.br>br>Beneath the Surface explores the weight of the past upon the present, the burden of keeping secrets and what happens when children get caught in the undercurrents of adult relationships. br>br>Praise for Fiona Neill:br>br>''A novel made for heated book club debates'' Stylistbr>br>''Vivid and insightful'' Guardianbr>br>''No one writes about modern family with more truth or authenticity than Fiona Neill'' Lisa Jewell>
