THE MUMMY DIARIES
A message from Penguin:
"Rachel Johnson's take on life as a so-called yummy mummy (whatever that is) in West London and on Exmoor has been entertaining her newspaper readers for the last couple of years: now they are seamlessly turned into a diary of her year."
I have been shamelessly plugging the book here there and everywhere but here in full is my best review - from Heat magazine, no less.
"Oh, the trials of Rachel Johnson's life. Running a house in Notting Hill and another one in Exmoor, with only minimal help from a cleaning lady and au pair. Honestly, we wonder how the woman manages to get up in the morning, never mind haul herself to the Aga, such is her burden. Of course, she does work occasionally, since she managed to rattle off this book between trips to the Portobello Market...but we can't think it's too much of a drain. Despite the type of charmed life that usually makes us grind out teeth and harrumph with envy, we just can't manage to dislike Rachel Johnson. The weekly instalments of her middle class mummy's diary are actually very, very funny, possibly because you get the distinct impression she is making up this whole wife/mother thing as she goes along. A must-read for all you yummy-mummies." |
