{"product_id":"why-mummy-drinks-on-holiday-paperback","title":"Why Mummy Drinks on Holiday - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGill Sims\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo.1 bestselling author Gill Sims is back with her eagerly awaited sixth \u003cem\u003eWhy Mummy\u003c\/em\u003e novel.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWhen family life gives you lemons, trade them for grapes!\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMummy Ellen has a Vision. She will cherish every moment this holiday with her Moppets Peter and Jane, alongside her ride-or-die best pal, Hannah. There will be wicker baskets! Vintage bicycles! Pink sunshine wine! And not an electronic babysitter in sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as she strives for her picture-perfect \"Ultimate Family Summer\" in her not-quite-a-chateau, reality crashes the party. With small feral hell-beasts to keep alive on the daily, and Hannah suddenly MIA, wine o'clock gets earlier by the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan Ellen keep The Vision alive without resorting to nightly beige 'freezer tapas' (aka guilt-flavoured chicken nuggets)? Or will she reach the end of her Gentle Parenting book - \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e her tether - as her dream holiday descends into a nightmare?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoin Ellen on her uproarious quest to salvage one of the #18PreciousSummers, or simply find her Grape Escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGill Sims is the author of the hugely successful parenting blog and Facebook site 'Peter and Jane'. Her first book \u003cem\u003eWhy Mummy Drinks\u003c\/em\u003e was the bestselling hardback fiction debut of 2017, spending over six months in the top ten of the \u003cem\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestsellers chart, and was shortlisted for Debut Novel of the Year in the British Book Awards. Her globally bestselling \u003cem\u003eWhy Mummy...\u003c\/em\u003e series has now sold over a million copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe lives in Scotland with her husband, two children and two Border terriers, because apparently one terrier didn't cause her enough trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGill's interests include drinking wine, wasting time on social media, trying and failing to capture her lost youth, and looking for one of the dogs when he decides to go on one of his regular jaunts, while trying to stop the other one eating unspeakable things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 7.81 x 5.17 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47497120612573,"sku":"9780008592011","price":20.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/7IDQJfx_B69780008592011.webp?v=1771980051","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/why-mummy-drinks-on-holiday-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}