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A Year in the Life of a Playground Mother

A School Gates Comedy, Book 1

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A Year in the Life of a Playground Mother

By: Christie Barlow
Narrated by: Karen Cass
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Ever had the pleasure of collecting your children from the school playground? Even if you haven't, this is a hilarious must-listen.

Fed up with the playground mafia at her children’s school, Rachel Young is desperate for a change. With her family and various pets in tow, a picture-perfect village in the countryside beckons. There, Rachel’s children will be able to keep chickens and skip through fields, and she’ll bid farewell to the botoxed, fake-Gucci wearing Mumzillas forever. But at the new school the mums are even worse, and before long, Rachel finds herself contending with a motley crew including Mrs High School Musical, The International Sex God and The Frisky Pensioner. While the children are practicing their sums and perfecting their reading, Rachel is learning some harsh lessons on the other side of the school gates - and ruffling plenty of feathers along the way.

©2014 Christie Barlow (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd Literature & Fiction Witty Funny Comedy

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‘Well-observed, highly-relatable and wickedly-funny.’ (Cathy Bramley)

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I really enjoyed this book. Lots of giggle/laugh out loud moments. I just love the bus game! Narration was perfect and brought the characters to life

Very funny book with excellent narration

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This book has ups and downs but overall it’s funny and relatable to all parent with preschool children. I really enjoyed this book and can’t wait to buy the next installment. Brilliant

So funny and relatable

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Liked it's being said as it was.., didn't like not speaking up for herself

Judgemental but accurate

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This is hilarious, and I’ve loved every minute of it! A fun story about a group of mothers who meet at the school gate - gossip, bitching, one upmanship through your kids, who gets invited to parties, and who is deliberately left out, how parents can behave worse than their children on the playground! … but in reality it is more about friendship and just what goes on behind peoples doors. It’s about how to be kind and gentle with other people, even when they don’t reciprocate. How to walk away from a fight; how to do the right or nice thing, when you know something about someone else.

Sooo funny!

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this book is one those books you can't put down. it's definitely a laugh out loud book. where people are staring at you wondering what you are laughing at. oh how I wish I had that bus

hilarious

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