There’s an awful lot of swearing that actually made me feel quite jealous. There are many laugh out loud moments (often through Edward’s antics for me). There’s a witty, conversational style that makes the reader feel they are one of Ellen’s friends listening to her rather than reading about her. Having read and reviewed all three of the previous books in the Why Mummy series, it’s tricky to say something new about Why Mummy’s Sloshed that I haven’t said before.Īll the elements I’ve come to expect from Gill Simms’ writing are present in Why Mummy’s Sloshed. My Review of Why Mummy’s SloshedĮllen’s life is as chaotic, expletive and drink-filled as usual! She’s feeling overwhelmed and under appreciated, and the only thing that Mummy knows for sure is that the bigger the kids, the bigger the drink. And despite her best efforts, her precious moppets still don’t know the location of the laundry basket, the difference between being bored and being hungry, or that saying ‘I can’t find it Mummy’ is not the same as actually looking for it.Īmidst the chaos of A-Levels and driving tests, she’s doing her best to keep her family afloat, even if everybody is set on drifting off in different directions, and that one of those directions is to make yet another bloody snack. Mummy has been a wife and mother for so long that she’s a little bit lost. I have literally never stood wistfully in the supermarket and thought ‘Oh, how I wish someone was trailing behind me constantly whining ‘Mummy, can I have, Mummy can I have?’ while another precious moppet tries to climb out the trolley so they land on their head and we end up in A&E. And despite the busybody old women who used to pop up whenever I was having a bad day and tell me I would miss these days when they were over, I don’t miss those days at all. It genuinely never occurred to me when they were little that this would ever end – an eternity of Teletubbies and Duplo and In The Night Bastarding Garden and screaming, never an end in sight. I just wanted them to stop wittering at me, eat vegetables without complaining, let me go to the loo in peace and learn to make a decent gin and tonic. Published by Harper Collins on 15th October 2020, Why Mummy’s Sloshed is available for purchase through the links here. You’ll find my review of Why Mummy Drinks here, of Why Mummy Swears here and of Why Mummy Doesn’t Give a **** here. Having read and loved the previous three books in the Why Mummy… series by Gill Simms, I simply had to read Why Mummy’s Sloshed and I’m delighted to share my review today. Netgalley Advocate Netgalley General Data Protection Regulations Lyrics for the Loved Ones by Anne Goodwin.

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