Author(s): Anonymums

General

Behind their bright smiles, devoted cooing and toting of twenty types of nutritious snack, there are mothers - mothers who believe that a crisis of confidence is something that happens to other people - who are wondering what the hell happened to their lives.These are not secret boozehound mothers. They are not women wanting to run away from their families or cheat on their husbands. They are intelligent, independent women who have jobs and friends, who used to have full, creative lives and are now excited by green milk and no-scrub cleaning products. Mum A, Mum B and Mum C (the Anonymums) are three professional women - two of them published writers, the other an academic - who adore their children and realise they have fortunate, protected lives but who yearn for … something. It could be excitement; it could be change. It could be a creative challenge. The women appointed a time, lied to their husbands, shut their bedroom or office doors and started to type. Their real names were never to be used; their real families and friends would never know what they were doing. And what they were doing was truth and dare. By turns jaw-achingly funny, touching, sad and sensible, Anonymums is the must-have tome for all mothers - and anyone thinking about becoming a mother. But just don’t ask the Anonymums to reveal their identities - they can’t. Their husbands still don’t know.