I Don't Know How She Does It

Allison Pearson

Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. A victim of time famine, Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. As she lies in bed at night, she worries about the client she lost to a twenty-eight-year-old who still has time to go to the gym, and the emails she has to answer before six in the morning. She spends her days in a male-dominated office where she is the only woman who has children, and her nights trying to be the perfect mother. In this uproariously funny and achingly sad novel, Allison Pearson brilliantly dramatizes the dilemma of working motherhood at the start of the twenty-first century.