Thank you to NetGalley and Severn House for this ARC.

Claire, 46, mother of 3 (4 if you count the useless husband) has had enough. She writes articles for a parenting website and has once written a children's book but feels she is stagnating. So she decides to re-evaluate her life but is the grass really greener elsewhere?

I had some intense deja vu moments with this book. Especially the head lice infection and the linguini on lap incident sounded incredibly familiar, so either I'm a time traveller or I have read this story or parts of it somewhere before.

Unfortunately, I didn't connect with the writing style. The action takes place over one day, 4 September 2024, but with flashbacks to May and July of the same year and to 1999. This makes it disjointed and confusing, plus that day seemed to go on forever. It's ridiculous all the stuff she has to deal with and that goes wrong within the space of a day. The events were either funny or infuriating, like a day in the life of a working mother, but on steroids. I liked the personal growth in some characters, and her neighbour Bea who was quite with the times for her advanced age. Read if you like chaotic mom-coms.

As a mom of 4, I felt this book was so deliciously chaotic and hilarious while resonating with everything that is MOM LIFE!

It was fun to read and connect to a mom that was in her 40s and dealing with the hot mess daily situations of having multiple kids. 😆 But it was so much more than just that! Sometimes when the feeling of not being seen and unappreciated becomes too much to handle in the chaos of life, love and work.. you have had enough! ✋🏻 Trying to find that person that you were before kids and married life, the ‘what ifs’ and ultimately figuring out that who you have become can be even better, when you take the time to reflect and work on yourself.

Told through ‘day in the life’ snippets of time and flashbacks to memories that give a reflection of how things have come to be. It made this a quick read and allowed a complete feel of Claire’s inner monologue and into this story.

‘𝐈𝐟 𝐈 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟?’👏🏻

Claire also befriends Bea who I absolutely adored and felt that she helped bring Claire full circle.

𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳. 𝘞𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘹 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴. 😭👏🏻