For tired, tested and beyond!
Tired and Tested – the blurb
Welcome to the jungle…
When you’ve grown up thinking your twenties are all about working hard, playing hard and trying not to get pregnant, life comes at you fast when you go from hump to bump.
So you thought adulthood would mean a high-flying career and a luxury lifestyle, but instead have ended up with a Lycra-based wardrobe and a deep fear of what lies at the bottom of the ball-pit in soft play?
Join comedian Sophie McCartney as she voyages deep into the uncharted territories of mating, birthing, feral offspring, mums overdoing it at the watering hole, and the perilous viper’s nest of the school WhatsApp group.
With laugh out loud humor and eye-watering honesty, Sophie shows how whether you’ve had a day full of whining or a night full of wine, there’s joy to be had in the perfectly imperfect wild ride into parenthood.
Been there, done that
I’ve been a big fan of Sophie McCartney ever since I watched her Ed Sheeran cover ‘Smell of You’ (if you haven’t watched it yet do). I’m also a fan of candid mom biographies, something I first came across via The Unmumsy Mum. However my eldest is now 13 and I’m several steps away from birth, breast feeding and baby led weaning. So would I like Sophie’s biography subtitled ‘the wild ride into parenthood?
Well yes I did, very much so. See Sophie is billed, in various search engines, as a comedian which makes a huge difference. I giggled along to Sophie’s recollections of sleep deprivation rather than found solidarity in it. That being said, the emotion is still there – when Sophie talks about being left alone shortly after her eldest was born, in hospital responsible for a baby whilst still high on drugs and struggling to comprehend what the hell just happened it invoked all the feels, as did losing her first name to be replaced with ‘Jack’s mum’. It was the humor though that leapt off the page with certain lines still making me giggle now. Sure if you’re 60 without grandkids then it might not be for you, unless you want to wallow in smug ‘so pleased that’s not me-ness’ but I loved it.
Humour (belly laughs), emotion (bucket loads) and bang on observations (I’m guilty of at least the first 4 school yard mom uniform traits) make Tired and Tested a top read – now hurry up McCartney children and become teens so Sophie can write all about it!
