I Don't Know How She Does It

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<p>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 e-mail lover, and you have a woman juggling so many balls that some day soon something's going to hit the ground.</p><p>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.</p>

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Allison Pearson was born in South Wales. An award-winning journalist, she was named Newcomer of the Year at the British Book Awards for<i>I Don't Know How She Does It</i>. Allison has written for many magazines and newspapers including the<i>Independent on Sunday</i>,<i>Observer</i>, the<i>Sunday Times</i>and the London<i>Evening Standard</i>. She is a contributing editor to<i>Harper's Bazaar</i>and, for four years, she was the popular Wednesday columnist of the<i>Daily Mail</i>. Allison is now a staff writer at the<i>Daily Telegraph</i>. She lives with her family in Cambridge.

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