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I Don't Know Hoe She does It (Boxset) (A/C)
Kate Reddy is a hedge fund manager and mother of two. She can juggle nine different currencies in five different time zones and get herself and two children washed and dressed and out of the house in half an hour. In Kate's life, Everything Goes Perfectly as long as Everything Goes Perfectly. Of course, everything doesn't go perfectly...
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Chatto and Windus I Don't Know How She Does It
For some considerable time, Allison Pearson's journalism and television punditry have represented an oasis of wit and intelligence in an era of dumbing-down. Her speciality is the perfectly judged observation: the devastatingly spot-on anatomising of the foibles of human behaviour--always unsparing, but always full of good humour. It's hardly surprising, then, that <I>I Don't Know How She Does It: Kate Reddy</I> is crammed full of those same qualities: this beguiling and sharply observed novel is based on her weekly <I>Daily Telegraph</I> column. The publishers tell us that this is a comedy about failure, a tragedy about success, and that gets it about right; at the centre of this utterly readable tale is the beleaguered Kate Reddy. <p> Pearson's heroine spends her life dealing with nagging guilt and the impossible demands of an over-busy life. Yes, we're talking about the crushing demands put on modern women--and Kate is a classic case of just how difficult it is to have it all. Career, relationships, marriage--as many women know, managing them all is a Herculean task. And as Kate's juggling act carries her closer and closer to disaster, Allison Pearson herself pulls off a particularly jaw-dropping juggling act herself: certainly, <I>I Don't Know How She Does It</I> is a delightful comedy of manners with a beautifully observed heroine (with whom it's very easy to identify), but there are some razor-sharp points made under the surface here about women in the new century. But this is never at the expense of an unputdownable read--Pearson is much too canny a writer to forget the fact that we want to be entertained first and foremost, whatever else an author may freight in to their narrative. No wonder all those Hollywood film studios are already putting up millions for the screen rights. --<I>Barry Forshaw</I>
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Adams Media Corporation I Don't Know How to Cook Book: 300 Great Recipes You Can't Mess Up
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Random House Audiobooks I Don't Know How She Does It
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Vintage I Don't Know How She Does It
For some considerable time, Allison Pearson's journalism and television punditry have represented an oasis of wit and intelligence in an era of dumbing-down. Her speciality is the perfectly judged observation: the devastatingly spot-on anatomising of the foibles of human behaviour--always unsparing, but always full of good humour. It's hardly surprising, then, that <I>I Don't Know How She Does It: Kate Reddy</I> is crammed full of those same qualities: this beguiling and sharply observed novel is based on her weekly <I>Daily Telegraph</I> column. The publishers tell us that this is a comedy about failure, a tragedy about success, and that gets it about right; at the centre of this utterly readable tale is the beleaguered Kate Reddy. <p> Pearson's heroine spends her life dealing with nagging guilt and the impossible demands of an over-busy life. Yes, we're talking about the crushing demands put on modern women--and Kate is a classic case of just how difficult it is to have it all. Career, relationships, marriage--as many women know, managing them all is a Herculean task. And as Kate's juggling act carries her closer and closer to disaster, Allison Pearson herself pulls off a particularly jaw-dropping juggling act herself: certainly, <I>I Don't Know How She Does It</I> is a delightful comedy of manners with a beautifully observed heroine (with whom it's very easy to identify), but there are some razor-sharp points made under the surface here about women in the new century. But this is never at the expense of an unputdownable read--Pearson is much too canny a writer to forget the fact that we want to be entertained first and foremost, whatever else an author may freight in to their narrative. No wonder all those Hollywood film studios are already putting up millions for the screen rights. --<I>Barry Forshaw</I>
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Whole-Being Books I'm Afraid of Hypnosis But I Don't Know Why: Answers the Questions You Always Ask
Pages: 268, Paperback, Whole-Being Books
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Vintage I Don't Know How She Does It
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Faber and Faber If I Don't Know
Wendy Cope is one of the few modern British poets to regularly enter the bestsellers list and, with her book of verses <I>If I Don't Know</I>, it is easy to see why. Cope started out as a teacher and worked for a number of years in several of London's junior schools before becoming a freelance writer and columnist. In 1986, she produced her first book of poems <I>Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis</I>, which contained various literary in-jokes, her work parodying the style of a number of key 20th-century poets; it was funny, accomplished and unique light verse--a term Cope dislikes because she feels that, it is used as a way of dismissing poets who allow humour into their work. <p> <I>If I Don't Know</I> is less dominated by both parody and humour, less subservient to the canon and is a stronger collection for it. The trademark skills are still here but a darker and warmer, more personal, more direct style is in evidence as is an abiding concern with love and loss. In Dead Sheep Poem a dead sheep (the skull / and jawbone, clean as carved ivory) is contemplated, violated even, by the just-arrived person with the notebook. In Tulips the pleasure of watching her flowers is overshadowed by the knowledge that they will soon die, Every day I wonder how long they will be here ... I almost wish them / gone. And a more critical, political note is struck in Sonnet of '68 and the tender, sad After Prague: Hope is a long leash, / drawn in slowly. The last, long narrative poem The Teacher's Tale is a moving account of Paul (He teaches nowadays. / He isn't bad at it.) and his troubled early years, He got off with a caution ... Vowed silently he'd never steal again. Wendy Cope is an eminently readable, intelligent and always sympathetic poet and this is another fine collection of her work. --<I>Mark Thwaite</I>
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Piatkus Books I Don't Know What I Want,But I Know It's Not This: A Step- By-step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work
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Continuum International Publishing Group - Morehou How Can I Let Go If I Don't Know I'm Holding On?: Setting Our Souls Free
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American Psychological Association I Don't Know Why...I Guess I'm Shy
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Mitchell Beazley I Don't Know Much About Wine, But I Know What I Like
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Random House Audiobooks I Don't Know How She Does It
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Bobby Womack / Facts Of Life/I Don't Know What The World Is Coming To
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