02552cam a2200361 4500 546474296 TxAuBib 20180604120000.0 180104t20182017||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017059419 9781250086082 hardcover 1250086086 hardcover (OCoLC)983651756 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO TOH T3D TXB OCLCO DAD VTL OCLCO UOK TxAuBib Pearson, Allison, 1960- How hard can it be / Allison Pearson. First U.S. edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018. ©2017. 372 pages ; 25 cm. "Allison Pearson's brilliant debut novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, was a New York Times bestseller with four million copies sold around the world. Called "the definitive social comedy of working motherhood" (The Washington Post) and "a hysterical look--in both the laughing and crying senses of the world--at the life of Supermom" (The New York Times), I Don't Know How She Does It introduced Kate Reddy, a woman as sharp as she was funny. As Oprah Winfrey put it, Kate's story became "the national anthem for working mothers." Seven years later, Kate Reddy is facing her 50th birthday. Her children have turned into impossible teenagers; 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. Once again, Kate is scrambling to keep all the balls in the air in a juggling act that an early review from the U.K. Express hailed as "sparkling, funny, and poignant...a triumphant return for Pearson." Will Kate reclaim her rightful place at the very hedge fund she founded, or will she strangle in her new "shaping" underwear? Will she rekindle an old flame, or will her house burn to the ground when a rowdy mob shows up for her daughter's surprise (to her parents) Christmas party? Surely it will all work out in the end. After all, how hard can it be?"-- 20180604. Middle-aged women Social conditions Fiction. Women executives Fiction. Married people Fiction. Work-life balance Fiction. Working mothers Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Families Fiction. Domestic fiction. Humorous fiction. TXGAI