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The surprise hit of the year, Allison Pearson's debut novel is garnering critical and fan raves. Publishers Weekly calls I Don't Know How She Does It "delightfully fast moving...with dozens of laugh-aloud moments and many tenderly touching ones," and Booklist applauds this "compelling manifesto on the plight of working mothers that manages to be both angry and funny."

For every woman trying to strike that impossible balance between work and home - and pretending that she has - and for every woman who has wanted to hurl the acquaintance who coos admiringly, "Honestly, I just don't know how you do it," out a window, here's a novel to make you cringe with recognition and laugh out loud. With fierce, unsentimental irony, Pearson's novel brilliantly dramatizes the dilemma of working motherhood at the start of the 21st century. Meet Kate Reddy, hedge-fund manager and mother of two.

Kate Reddy are tot ce-şi doreşte o femeie împlinită: casă de vis (sau pe-aproape), doi copii iubitori şi un soţ ca nimeni altul. Copiii au crescut şi au devenit adolescenţi (a se citi "nişte monştri"), Richard, soţul ideal, şi-a dat demisia, îşi pierde vremea pe velodrom, bea tot felul de sucuri sănătoase, se-mbracă din cap pînă-n picioare în lycra şi cheltuie banii familiei pe şedinţe de consiliere. Şi cum Richard, în drumul lui spre înţelepciune, nu mai are salariu, Kate trebuie să se întoarcă la muncă.

Cred ca te iubesc (2010) este al doilea roman al lui Allison Pearson, avind in centru figura starului pop David Cassidy, idolul tinerelor de la inceputul anilor '70. Actiunea cartii se desfasoara in doua epoci distincte: adolescenta eroinei, Petra Williams, o perioada in care aceasta se confrunta cu dificultatile inerente integrarii in cercul ideal de fete de la scoala si cu fiorii iubirii inflacarate pe care o nutreste fata de idolul ei, David Cassidy, si anii ei de maturitate, cind Petra, acum o femeie de 38 de ani, are la rindul sau o fiica adoles­centa.

Kate Reddy is back! This is the follow-up to the international best seller I Don't Know How She Does It, the novel that defined modern life for women everywhere. This time she's juggling teenagers, aging parents and getting back into the workplace, and every minute will have you laughing and thinking: it's not just me. Kate Reddy is counting down the days until she is 50, but not in a good way. Fifty, in Kate's mind, equals invisibility.

Kate Reddy had it all: a nice home, two adorable kids, a good husband. Then her kids became teenagers (read: monsters). She's facing her 50th birthday; her mother and in-laws are in precarious health; and her husband is having a midlife crisis that leaves her desperate to restart her career after years away from the workplace. Kate is scrambling to keep all the balls in the air in a juggling act that an early review from the UK Express hailed as "sparkling, funny, and poignant...a triumphant return for Pearson."

C'est un régal pour les lecteurs ayant grandi avec "Bridget Jones" de retrouver le personnage de Kate Reddy, quinze ans après l'énorme succès de "Je ne sais pas comment elle fait". Kate Reddy compte les quelques semaines qui la séparent de la cinquantaine avec effroi. Si on ajoute à cette angoisse les hormones qui s'agitent, des ados qui ont besoin d'elle mais qui ne lui adressent pas la parole, des parents qui vieillissent et redeviennent des enfants, un mari qui se cherche et a décidé de s'offrir un break pour se consacrer à la méditation.

Sie ist Mitte dreißig und die einzige weibliche Führungskraft einer Londoner Investmentfirma. Außerdem ist Kate die Mutter von Emily (6) und Ben (1). Trotz verständnisvollem Ehemann und perfekter Organisation schrammt sie chronisch am Rand der Katastrophe entlang. Verspätete Flugzeuge oder verschwundene Kuscheltiere sind Zeitbomben. Was aber bedeutet schon Bananenbrei auf dem Business-Kostüm gegen ein Lächeln des Babys? Da tritt genau das in ihr Leben, wofür Kate am allerwenigsten Zeit hat: ein anderer Mann.