This was one of the funniest books i have read for a while, i smiled laughed giggled and laughed out load on parts of it. Read pretty quick as it just kept me wanting more. good easy read and great story

An easy to follow story with lots of laughs and humour. Relatable characters and adventures. A perfect escape from reality

Lovely, easy to read story. Laugh out loud funny. Refreshing to have an older heroine at the centre of a story. Engaging throughout and a lovely dynamic shines out between all the family members. Really enjoyable.

Thank you Netgalley.

A mid life crisis for both the husband and wife, with the prospect of menopause seen as a huge hurdle in front of the wife! The wife setting goals for herself every month as a result of her "successful" sister getting on at her to do so. The husband getting fed up with traveling so much with his job, which he was good at, but clearly bored with, Solutions presented themselves and with some careful manoeuvring by the wife, life for the couple worked out. Meanwhile, a story of a busy family life with teenagers posing the usual questions and problems to be worked through. Friends having crisis's and the wife's bookclub providing the necessary female support group! Bookclubs are not all about the chosen book! An engaging read.

If you need a good laugh this book will see to this.
It is easy to get into .
There will be characters that you can identify with.
A really good book
Thanks NetGalley

It’s been a while since I read a book I struggled to put down, but as a no-longer-young (except at heart) lady, I totally identified with the narrator and felt as if the author had got inside my head. I liked the Bridget Jones style diary structure, the characters really came to life and there was real life with day to day rather than apocalyptic drama. Loved it and now plan to search out more from Tracy Bloom!

The Wife who got a Life – Tracy Bloom
5 stars from me. Recommended

Tracy Bloom has excelled herself with this rollocking, seriously funny diary of a perimenopausal woman and her determination to find a new life. Cathy is a long-suffering wife in the tradition of all menopausal women who are wondering: is this it? Is this to be their life from now on? Having long been a fan of Bloom’s No one ever has sex novels, it was a joy to find the same humour, the same enjoyable ride through family life as previously. And yet, there’s now more. There’s a slightly more sophisticated handling of the main character – Cathy - than with previous Bloom novels. It was a joy, kept me enthralled all the way through and certainly with more than one actual laugh out loud moment.
5 stars from me. Recommended.

This is certainly a light hearted read. There are plenty of laugh out loud moments. There we also so many relatable moments in the book. Perfect for an afternoon read and if we could travel your perfect holiday book.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this ARC

I loved this book. I’ll be honest and say that I thought I’d made a mistake when I first started reading it, but the further I read, the more I laughed (and cried), and the more I loved it!

Cathy the main character, is a 48 year old version of Adrian Mole. I’m sorry, but I had to go there! There are a lot of similarities: the humour, the long-suffering diary writer, the clueless and self-absorbed family. But this is most definitely written by a 48 year old woman.

Cathy is very relatable in an exaggerated way - but hey! This is fiction, not a memoir! She’s dealing with older teenagers, a husband that works away from home in the week and is utterly clueless as to what’s going on in his family’s lives, ageing parents, one sister who thinks she’s hard done by and should have everyone running around after her, and another who is detached from her parents and siblings and doesn’t understand what’s going on with them! Communication is a key skill in any family, and sadly lacking in this one.

When Cathy decides to put herself first for a change, I practically cheered out loud, and her cooking solution was genius!

I think I laughed through most of this book, had a good cry a couple of times, and by the end I was sure that Cathy Collins should have another book. I’m not sure though - I like where this ended. But I’d still read it (I’m beginning to sound like Cathy). It was a perfect balance of humour, sadness and the ridiculous - how can anyone not want more of that?!

Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for helping me out with my NetGalley reading (again!), Tracy Bloom for reading along, and Harper Collins for my e-arc through NetGalley.

Funny and fabulous!
All women can relate to this fantastic story, especially important as it includes the 'm' word!!! (There is not enough information out there for anyone in their 40's/50’s to know what to expect).
Great humour great characters and a fabulous read!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A light-hearted novel in chick-fic style but with a refreshing difference - it features a perimenopausal woman who is a mother to two teenagers and married to a management consultant who travels a lot.

Cathy starts off the year with the resolution to make a change. Her goals are quirky but with deeper meaning - "Dance with Hugh Jackman," for instance, although I won't mention the deeper meaning as that would give too much of the story away.

A novel of a woman in midlife finding herself again, which makes her a better person all around.

Enjoyable and even inspiring.

I have loved Tracey Bloom since her first novel No one Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday and my love for her continues with her new book The Wife Who Got a Life. Cathy is so relatable to me as I too am a women in her forties although I don’t have grown up kids, I do know that sometimes I look at life and think what I could be doing differently to be happier, healthier, wealthier especially in the year of hell during a pandemic!! This book has made me realise that you don’t have to change the world, but by just changing some little things, could make the world of difference. We also all need a Robbie in our lives!!!!!!!!

A book that will make you laugh out loud, cringe slightly at times, and cry, it is definitely worth a read.

Thank you #netgalley, #HarperCollinsUK #HarperFiction and and also #TraceyBloom for my copy for an honest review

I liked this one, not my usual serial killer book for once, and I enjoyed it. It was funny and uplifting in parts and a nice little escape from the world...I liked the main character and I thought it was an easy read to settle into, I’d defo read more form the author, I enjoyed this one more than I thought I would and will read more of this genre in the future ! 😊

Hilarious, uplifting and so relatable, Tracy Bloom’s brilliant new novel The Wife Who Got a Life is sure to strike a chord with readers everywhere and have them roaring with laughter on almost every page.

Cathy Collins’s life is a constant whirl of laundry, housework and putting up with her kids’ far too frequent tantrums. Putting everyone else first and herself last in the queue has sadly become par for the course for Cathy who has grown so used to catering to her family’s every whim and demand that she barely has any time for herself. With her own needs at the bottom of the list, being taken for granted is something Cathy knows only too well – until her husband drops a mid-life bombshell that pulls the rug out from under her feet and makes her determined to shake things up. Cathy decides that the time has come for her to stop being a doormat and to take control of her life – but first she needs to get out of the house!

Cathy is all set to carve a new path and forge ahead with her brand new life. With nothing holding her back, the world is Cathy’s oyster and hers for taking, but sadly all her plans for a fabulous new life look set to go awry as nothing seems to be going her way. What will Cathy do next? Will she abandon her plans to be a brand new woman and go back to slaving after her family? Or will Cathy keep fighting to have the happiness and fulfilment she craves which she so richly deserves?

Tracy Bloom’s The Wife Who Got a Life is one of the funniest books of the year. A side-splittingly funny romp that readers are going to struggle to put down, The Wife Who Got a Life is an absolutely fabulous tale with a brilliant heroine readers are going to fall in love with. Cathy is a wonderful character who is funny, kind-hearted, loyal and somebody readers would love to have as a friend. Tracy Bloom writes with great honesty, candour and warmth about the joys and frustrations of family life and the struggles of starting over and keep plugging away to get the life you have always wanted when nothing is going your way.

Fun, feisty and fabulous, Tracy Bloom’s The Wife Who Got a Life should not be missed.

If, like me, your initial reaction at the opening is a slightly disappointed ‘Oh, another of those diary accounts … and another about the menopause.’ stick with this. It has many amusing moments and it gains strength as it develops.
If you’re an enthusiastic fan of the diary –type novels that are rooted very much in daily realistic life, then this is a definite read for you.
Bloom picks up the often mundane comments and incidents in life and gives them a chuckling-inducing spark of humour.
Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Collins for this copy in exchange for an honest review.

This is a hilariously insightful exploration of what it's like to be a mother, wife and woman in your late forties. The incidents and issues Cathy experiences are relatable for most women at this time in their life. Whilst this story has an obvious target audience, the humour and insight widen its scope and make it an appealing, heartwarming and uplifting read for everyone.

I received a copy of this book from Harper Fiction via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

Setting goals for the next 12 months can be hard, but these are different kinds of goals. These goals help you realise things and changes things for the better. A good read

What a fantastic feel good book! I can’t believe I took so long to get to it from my ‘to read’ pile! I’d definitely recommend

This book was an easy light hearted read. Cathy the main character is 48 and married with two teenage children. When she is given a motivational diary for Christmas from her sister she decides reluctantly to fill it in with things she hopes to achieve over the coming year.

Cathy has to deal with many issues in her life. Teenage dramas, sisterly rivalry, husbands midlife crisis and menopause to name a few.

While I found parts of the book funny I did find myself skipping parts as the story failed to hold my interest.

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for my chance to read this light hearted book.

This is a laugh out loud, feel good story which will leave you with a big smile on your face.

Our heroine, Cathy Collins, is someone who I really resonated with. What a woman!