The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs - Brossura

Hopkinson, Christina

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1444710400 ISBN 13: 9781444710403

Casa editrice: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011

Riassunto

Mary Gilmour feels as though her life is going down a plug hole clogged with cornflakes and Play-Doh. Her job is part time but housework is full time, and she has no time at all for her two young sons. Mary is convinced that there is only one thing standing between her and organised contentment: his name is Joel and she's married to him. Since star charts have worked on improving the behaviour of their children, she designs an equivalent for her husband: a spreadsheet detailing every balled-up tissue, every sock on the floor, every wet towel on the bed. Although he has no idea of it, Joel has six months to prove that his credits outweigh his debits. Or else . . .

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Recensione

'Christina Hopkinson has wittily and very realistically tapped into the zeitgeist - literally the most relevant novel for a working mother since I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson.' (Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes)

'I read it, I really enjoyed it, I left it on the stairs.' (John O'Farrell)

'The new I Don't Know How She Does It' (Grazia)

'This is a so-real-it's-scary, look at marriage, motherhood and the war on the domestic front.' (Cosmopolitan, Australia)

'A perceptive take on modern marriage in a world where equality has handed the women the right to have it all but not the time, money or energy to actually do it.' (Sunday Herald Sun)

'The strength of the novel is in its narrative arc about a relationship recalibrating after children disrupt the notion of gender equality . . . there are many shades of grey, many contradictions, many domestic realities incisively observed.' (Sunday Telegraph, Australia)

L'autore

Christina Hopkinson is an author and journalist whose work has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Times, Grazia and Red magazine. Her first novel, IzobelBrannigan.com was published by Piatkus and was described by the Mirror as 'an insightful debut - witty, wise and worth reading'. She lives in London with her husband and three children.

Visit Christina's website, www.christinahopkinson.com, and follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/Xtinahopkinson.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Hodder & Stoughton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1444710400
• ISBN 13: 9781444710403
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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