And God Created the Au Pair
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AlbakiReads Editorial Motherhood, marriage, and domestic chaos—one email at a time
Motherhood, marriage, and domestic chaos—one email at a time
Told through the candid email correspondence of sisters Charlotte and Nell, this novel frames modern family life as a running exchange of confessions, mishaps, and hard-won solidarity. Living continents apart, the two women compare the pressures of raising children, managing households, negotiating inattentive husbands, and measuring themselves against seemingly more polished families. The au pair is part of a larger comic picture of domestic life stretched beyond anyone’s control, while the sisters’ messages also register the shift from youthful independence to the compromises and demands of adulthood. Its central relationship is the sisters’ long-distance connection: a space for honesty amid competing family obligations.
Good fit for readers who enjoy
- Readers interested in comic fiction about motherhood and married life
- Fans of epistolary novels built through emails and personal correspondence
- Readers drawn to stories of sisterhood and everyday family disorder
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MotherhoodMarriageSisterhoodDomestic lifeChanging adulthood
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Book Overview Picture the perfect family...Now forget it & read this.An achingly funny novel on modern motherhood and married life, as told through...
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...
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 376 | Language: English | Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS 360 | ISBN: 0007185200
FormatPaperback
Pages376
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0007185200
EAN9780007185207
PublisherHARPERCOLLINS 360
Publication Date2005-03-28
EditionIllustrated
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.76 Pounds
Length8.0 Inches
Width5.0 Inches
Height0.96 Inches
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