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Wife in the North
Wife in the North | Judith O'Reilly
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How far would you go to be the perfect mother? The hilarious Wife in the North by Judith O'Reilly, based on her enormously popular blog, recounts one woman's attempt to move her family and her life from cosmopolitan London to rural Northumberland. Maybe hormones ate her brain. How else did Judith's husband persuade her to give up her career and move from her beloved London to Northumberland with two toddlers in tow? Pregnant with number 3 Judith is about to discover that there are one or two things about life in the country that no one told her about: that she'd be making friends with people who believed in the four horsemen of the apocalypse; that running out of petrol could be a near death experience and that the closest thing to an ethnic minority would be a redhead. Judith tries to do that simple thing that women do, make hers a happy family. A family that might live happily ever after. Possibly even up North ... 'Genuinely funny and genuinely moving' Jane Fallon, author of Getting Rid of Matthew 'Cold Comfort Farm with booster seats. Funny, honest and moving' Stephanie Calman, author of Confessions of a Bad Mother 'I howled with laughter, tears of recognition at every page' Jenny Colgan 'Funny, poignant and beautifully written' Lisa Jewell Judith O'Reilly, a journalist and the mother of three young children, was persuaded to move from London to Northumberland by her husband in August 2005. She started a blog, wifeinthenorth.com, in November 2006, which quickly picked up fans around the world with its witty tales of family and country life. Her second book A Year of Doing Good is published by Penguin.
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Caroline2
Wife in the North | Judith O'Reilly
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Spoilt middle class woman from London buys a second home in Northumberland and moans about it. She keeps her London house and goes back at every opportunity. The snobbery is off the charts,“Shopping in the local market town is not the same as Selfridges and Fenwick.” Argh! I‘m done! Check your privilege love, you‘ve got a husband who supports you and TWO houses, three healthy kids and an amazing career. DNF page 51.

squirrelbrain Oh dear, that sounds awful! 😬 4y
Caroline2 I‘ve read a few memoirs lately like this. Where London is the centre of the universe, blah blah blah. She was all judgey wudgey about the northern mums too cause they, shock horror, did the school run with no make up on!!! 😱 🙄 I‘d bloody love a cottage up in Northumberland!!! @squirrelbrain (edited) 4y
TrishB My least fave genre, rich people‘s problems! 4y
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Caroline2 @TrishB Me too Trish! 😒 4y
Jess_Read_This Ugh. And reading Jenny Colgan‘s praise about it makes me wonder about her now too! From your description, it sounds like an awful tone deaf kind of read. 4y
Caroline2 @Jess_Read_This Yeah that is surprising isn‘t it. Although maybe I‘m just jealous as I‘d love a cottage in the country right now!! 😆 4y
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Traci1
Wife in the North | Judith O'Reilly
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#MemoirMonday #ReadingResolutions @Jess7

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This is one of my favorite memoirs. Laugh out loud funny. Highly recommended.

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