How Hard Can It Be?. Allison Pearson
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Название: How Hard Can It Be?
Автор: Allison Pearson
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Зарубежный юмор
isbn: 9780008150549
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The Borough Press
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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
Copyright © Allison Pearson 2017
Cover design by Claire Ward © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018
Hand lettering by Ruth Rowland. Cover illustration by Henn Kim
Allison Pearson asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
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Source ISBN: 9780008150556
Ebook Edition © May 2018 ISBN: 9780008150549
Version: 2018-03-22
Praise for How Hard Can It Be?
‘Revolutionary … Both funny and unflinching’
ELIZABETH DAY, Daily Telegraph
‘Once again, countless women will recognise themselves … Pearson has a gift’
The Times
‘Zesty, razor-sharp and hilarious … Get ready for Kate!’
TINA BROWN, magazine editor and bestselling author
‘Sharply observed and very funny’
Woman & Home
‘Made me laugh, wince, shudder and shed a tear!’
SOPHIE KINSELLA
‘As sharp and witty as ever … hugely enjoyable’
Daily Mail
‘Funny, heart-breaking, wise and delightful’
SOPHIE HANNAH
‘How Hard Can It Be? is that rare thing: a sequel that matches and even surpasses the original’
Daily Telegraph
‘Brilliantly well observed’
INDIA KNIGHT
‘Pearson deftly balances despair-inducing observations with escapist pizzazz’
Mail on Sunday
‘Pearson makes a sharp point about the lack of value and status that society places on the onerous job of a stay at home mother … in these pages, there is a raw honesty’
Financial Times
‘Sparkling, funny and poignant, this is a triumphant return for Pearson and hopefully not the last we will hear of Kate’
Daily Express
‘A cutting edge of its own’
Metro
‘Wildly entertaining’
Reader’s Digest
‘[Pearson] nails the comedy and the pathos of daily domestic life like no one else’
Country Life
‘Poignant and smart takes on the pressures affecting working mothers … laugh out loud funny’
Women’s Agenda
‘[Peason writes] with acid and a daunting determination to tell it like it is’
New Zealand Herald
For Awen and Evie,
my mother and my daughter
Conceal me what I am, and by my aid
For such disguise as haply shall become
The form of my intent.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Nobody tells you about the balding pudenda.
Whoopi Goldberg
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