Title: Did My Love Life Shrink In The Wash?
Author: Kristen Bailey
Series: The Callaghan Sisters #3
Genre: Humor, Women’s Fiction
Publisher: Bookouture (11th January 2020)
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Blurb
Sure, my bedroom gets lots of action. It’s called snoring.
Will and I didn’t have a clue what we were signing up for. It turns out that there’s loads we weren’t warned about:
1) You’ll spend more time spooning your child’s cuddly donkey than your own boyfriend.
2) Communication with your other half will be via post-it notes on the fridge, mainly telling him to buy more milk.
3) If you make the mistake of going to a nightclub you’ll nod off, drool, and be woken up by an angry bouncer.
4) In the middle of the night you’ll be begging Siri for advice on getting your baby to sleep. (Whale music doesn’t work.)
5) Sex is something that happened in another dimension.
But even if I feel like I’m waiting for my motherhood powers to come in the post, at least I’ve got Will. Our old life – festivals, sambuca shots, an actual sex life – might be a distant memory, but we can get through anything together, can’t we?
At least that’s what I thought until, one day, Will walked out on us… If I’m on my own (apart from Siri, obviously) can I do this whole parenting thing? Or I am destined to lose my sanity one sleepless night at a time?
A totally hilarious and absolutely relatable tale for anyone who has survived parenthood purely on microwave meals and wished for an IV drip of coffee to get them through! This uplifting page-turner will make your belly ache with laughter. Perfect for fans of Why Mummy Drinks, Sophie Ranald and Sophie Kinsella.
Review
I was drawn to this book purely for the title, it made me laugh. This is book 3 of The Callaghan Sisters series but can be read as a standalone.
In this book we meet Beth about to become a mother for the first time, she and her long-term boyfriend Will were quite the party-goers and hadn’t planned to have children but after one drunken night, their lives are about to change.
I found myself captured from very early on and remember feeling very much like what Beth did after having a baby. It was raw and real. It had me laughing so many times, but I also felt empathy for Beth too and wanted to cry along with her. We have all been there.
There was so much that went one in baby Joe’s first year of life.
The support she had from her family was amazing, and the friendship that blooms between her and an unlikely person was lovely.
It was written so well and like the author was living Beth’s life.
I also loved Beth’s sisters, each are different to each other but I need to get to know them more so will definitely be grabbing the first two books in the series.
Author Bio
Mother-of-four, gin-drinker, binge-watcher, receipt hoarder, enthusiastic but terrible cook. Kristen also writes. She has had short fiction published in several publications including Mslexia & Riptide. Her first two novels, Souper Mum and Second Helpings were published in 2016. In 2019, she was long listed in the Comedy Women in Print Prize and has since joined the Bookouture family. She writes women’s fiction and she hopes her novels have fresh and funny things to say about modern life, love and family.
You can find out more about her at her website: www.kristenbaileywrites.com.
You can also find her on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
https://twitter.com/mrsbaileywrites
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this ebook from Netgalley, thank you to Bookouture for allowing me to review this book and be a part of the book tour.
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