The Yummy Mummy

by Polly Williams

Book Overview

In the tradition ofLittle Earthquakes, BabyvilleandI Don't Know How She Does It: the effervescent, canny, and downright delightful debut of Polly Williams, a spirited new voice in women's fiction. Amy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401302319
• ISBN13: 9781401302313
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Hyperion Books
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

fun to escape with a good read

Nothing was better than being pregnant with my son, relaxing and reading all of these wonderful novels. This one in particular made me laugh!

Could relate

I really liked the book. It shows how easy it is to let your mind run away from you and that you should ask instead of keeping it inside. You just may have it wrong and boy do baby hormones not help. And I love how it progresses Amy through the book to the end. Fast read.

Great Read for New Moms

Londoner Amy Crane becomes unexpectedly pregnant and then finds that pregnancy leaves her unexpectedly frumpy. Envying all the MILFs she encounters, she eventually starts on a self-improvement kick which has a negative effect on her love life. This book takes an honest look at what it's like to be home with a baby and a body you no longer recognize, suddenly cut off from friends and work. Amy's struggles with self-esteem will be familiar to many new moms and the self-acceptance and courage she finds will inspire many.

Satisfying, more deeply-layered than post-baby chick lit

"Nothing shakes one out of a shoe-centered singleton apolitical existence quite like a baby..." So laments Amy Crane, our main character and a newly-mummified singleton (living with the father of her 6-month-old baby, Evie, but not yet committed to marriage), formerly a fashion- and career-obsessed girl-about-London. Vaguely Bridget Jones, post-baby? Maybe a little, but The Yummy Mummy is definitely a more satisfying, deeply-layered, grown-up tale, about finding one's place in the universe as a mother; reconciling relationships with self, post-baby body, the father of the baby, and, in Amy's case, her mother and family history of abandonment and divorce. The writing is clever, with humor and angst to which any mother can relate. Readers will appreciate all the familiar events, phases, situations, innermost thoughts, feelings and insecurities as Amy evolves from New Mummy to Yummy Mummy... "Do these women not work? Evidently not. There is no sign of any tailored office clothes. No, these women are either full-time yummies or, like me, on maternity leave, having a sabbatical from working life. If the latter is the case, why aren't they frumpy and disoriented and unable to engage in witty adult repartee? Was there some prenatal class in postpartum glamour that I skipped? And how come they all look like they know what they're doing? Perhaps I am the only mother in London who feels like she's muddling through, pretending." Ultimately, Amy finds, or, rather, is discovered by, a guide and mentor in Alice, a devastatingly gorgeous and with-it Yummy Mummy, who takes Amy under her wing and into the rarified club of Yummy Mummies: A richly-rendered group of women who seem to have the mommy thing down. Amy learns how to get back into shape, how to dress, how to shop, where to go, what to do, how to be a Yummy Mummy: simply fabulous, in all aspects of appearance, anyway. In the process, she learns Yumminess is not really all it appears or all its cracked up to be. -- Sherri Caldwell, Humor Columnist & Reviewer at RebelHousewife.com Co-Author, The Rebel Housewife Rules: To Heck With Domestic Bliss!

More awesome chick lit!

I picked this up on a recent trip to London. This is fabulous, fast paced, and hilarious! It is the tale of a woman trying to get back to her beautiful self after the birth of a baby but then realizing she had what she thought she was missing all along.