The Mummy Diaries: Or How to Lose Your Husband, Children and Dog In Twelve Months - Books (Rachel Johnson, Paperback)

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Customer Reviews of The Mummy Diaries: Or How to Lose Your Husband, Children and Dog In Twelve Months

bookmad
UK
25th April 2008

Waste of time and money
My hubby bought me this during my first pregnancy and what a disapointment. The fact that Johnson lives an apparent life of privilege in Notting Hill means it's impossible to feel any kind of empathy with her. The stories are disjointed; there is no flow to the book at all and I found her writing style incoherent and the people featured 2 dimensional at best. And what's with the massive font? I guess it keeps the page numbers up, as the content is so sparse.

Terrie
London
14th March 2006

Pretentious nonsense
Like other reviewers I was drawn to this book by its cover and the blurb on the back. At home with two young children myself I normally love a good read about the trials and tribulations of motherhood...unfortunately this wasn't such a read. The author lives in such a rarifed world of money and second homes in the country, I doubt she can even begin to identify with the average mum about town and her attempts to portray herself as such seemed insincere. It is also badly written and,again like a previous reviewer, I kept having to back track in order to make sense of it. A real disappointment.

30th September 2005

Very dissapointing
I like other readers was drawn in by the cover and the blurb on the back. What a mistake, this book was very dull. It has occasional and I emphasise the occasional funny moments but on the whole is nothing more than a newspaper column strung together. The other annoying thing is that I wasted £4 when it only took me an hour to read. The text is the size of a childs first reading book. If you feel really compelled to read this for whatever reason don't buy it, borrow it from a friend or the library and invest your money in something that will last you longer than you're train ride to work.

Sara Crystal
London United Kingdom
19th September 2005

Amazing! Every wife/mother/dog-owner should read this book!
I bought the Mummy Diaries on a friend's recommendation and think it's every bit as brilliant as she said it was...Johnson has an effortlessly fluent turn of phrase which she uses brilliantly to communicate her successes and failures in the arena of modern motherhood..she is a piercing commentator on some of the more hypocritical obsessions of the moneyed Notting Hill middle classes and was laugh-out-loud funny on more occasions than I can remember - this is chick-lit with brains and I can't wait to read what Rachel Johnson writes next..

hellokitty
berks, uk
14th September 2005

A Load of Rubbish
I only gave this book one star because it wouldn't let me submit it with no stars.
I bought this book because the cover looked interesting, and the blurb on the back made me think it'd be a good, funny book.
However after the first chapter I was beginning to wish I'd picked something else. It is written in diary format, with 12 chapters jan-dec. The story doesn't flow and I found myself having to re-read parts, and flicking back to previous chapters to remind myself who characters were, and what had been happening. The author has tried to make it humorous and it just hasn't worked. I managed 150 pages, but could not force myself to go on any more and read the remaining 110. A very disappointing read.