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Indlæser... And God Created the Au Pairaf Benedicte Newland, Pascale Smets
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This started out as a very funny novel told through the email of two sisters, one living in Canada the other in London.The mishaps and mayhem of motherhood and married life are at first quite hilarious but as the story proceeds the endlessly witty attempts to top each other's horror stories of child-rearing, became rather predicable and unrealistic, ( ) The posed-as-fiction story of two sisters-cum-mothers in the form of emails reminded me of a sequel to Bridgette Jones diary. Diets, romance and lack of self-confidence replaced by children, varicose veins and lack of self confidence all presented in amusing and light way. The author first wrote this as a series in The Times on her new life. She like the fictional character has four children and lived in Canada while her sister (also as per fictional sister) has four children and lives in London. The individual emails v. v. funny . Adventures include buying bath as Christmas present, a Ferby birthday party and nursing hamster with cystitus. It is a witty exposure of chattering classes who I think willrecognise it as authentic insight. The best of them really do think and behave like that. As a plot it was very slow and when something did happened even the thickest and most harrassed of mothers could spot it coming 20 pages earlier. If you like the genre 'Dunkirk spirit mums struggle with egg-stained bibs and rising cost of school fees' read this (I do). If not, this will not change mind. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Picture the perfect family... Now forget it & read this. An achingly funny novel on modern motherhood and married life, as told through the e-mail correspondence of two sisters. When your family snapshots resemble NSPCC ads and it takes a quick-witted au pair to prevent your guests from burning alive, you have well and truly arrived in motherhood... Charlotte and Nell are sisters who live thousands of miles apart, each coping, or rather not coping, with the incalculable demands of motherhood. The daily battle to avert domestic disaster and keep up with the Dickenson-Jones's is abated only by their hilariously candid e-mail exchange. They address some crucial questions, such as: if your son hasn't noticed that you've given Benny the hamster away, it is safe to assume he's forgotten? What is the unassailable law of nature that guarantees a cool, elegant paint, chosen with a loving homemaker's care, will dry to the colour of greying ham? And will a glass of chardonnay make it all better? Charlotte and Nell are separated by continents but united in tales of over-busy lives and family mishaps - how to cope with children demanding their attention 24/7, husbands who are oblivious to the madness their world has become, as well as coming to terms with the fact that they are no longer the youthful free spirits they once were. And God Created the Au Pair is perhaps what Bridget Jones might write if she got married, had children and began to wonder whether being single had its advantages after all... No library descriptions found. |
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