I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother

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 school, she has to admit her life has become unrecognizable. With panache, wisdom, and uproarious wit,I Don't Know How She Does Itbrilliantly dramatizes the dilemma of every working mom.

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. A victim of time famine, Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. Factor in a manipulative nanny, an Australian boss who looks at Kate's breasts as if they're on special offer, a long-suffering husband, her quietly aghast in-laws, two needy children and an email lover, and you have a woman juggling so many balls that some day something's going to hit the ground. In an uproariously funny and achingly sad novel, Allison Pearson brilliantly dramatises the dilemma of working motherhood at the start of the twenty-first century. 'I love Kate Reddy...Her tale made me cry twice and laugh often' Independent on Sunday. 'If you could buy stock in a book, I would stake all my savings on the success of I Don't Know How She Does It'. Here at last is the definitive social comedy of working motherhood' Washington Post.