Why Mommy Drinks is the brilliant novel from Gill Sims, the author of the online sensation Peter and Jane.

Boy Child Peter, Girl Child Jane and Daddy have exciting adventures with Mommy. Daddy likes gadgets. Peter and Jane like starting fires, trying to kill each other and driving Mommy to drink. Written from the point of view of an exhausted mommy at the end of the day, its honest, its funny, and its a little bit sweary.

It is Mommys 39th birthday. She is staring down the barrel at a future of people asking if she wants to come to their yoga class, and book clubs, where everyone is wearing statement scarves and they are all tiddly after a glass of Pinot Grigio. But Mommy does not want to go quietly into that good night of women with sensible haircuts who live for their children, boasting about Boy Child and Girl Childs achievements. Instead, she clutches a large glass of wine, muttering FML over and over, and then remembers the gem of an idea shes had