Anoushka Beazley
Author,Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist and Counsellor
Alongside being a compassionate and well-qualified psychotherapist and supervisor, Anoushka is also the author of The Good Enough Mother, and has published various Articles.
A brief look into the book:
Gatlin – a leafy affluent town; Chelsea tractors and ladies who lunch. However, all is not as it seems. Drea, a most unnatural mother, struggles to find private school fees for her step-daughter Ava after her boyfriend leaves her for another woman. Watching the yummy mummies she becomes inspired, hatching a daring and criminal plan… unleashing all hell in the quiet town of Gatlin. Can Drea survive the fallout and the wrath of the PTA? A satirical and hilarious black comedy about love, motherhood and the human condition.
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as rated by amazon
Fantastic Read! Had a hard time putting it down. Unexpected both in plot twists, writing style and character development. Its mixture of black humour and slapstick comedy lightened the very real portrayal of modern family life. Drea is wonderful in her thoughts and actions and the cameos of her dad are hilarious. The book is now dog-eared and folded and already well loved. It’s travelled abroad and back and in many handbags.
Absolutely loved the flawed protagonist. Drea wants to be the cynical (very funny!) uncaring, self-centred anti-mother but all her actions and reactions just spell love, caring and concern.
A real gem and it’s on my present list for all my mum friends out there.
I was recommended this book by a mum friend – it is a brilliant read! It has the perfect mix of humour and sensitivity. Some of the dialogue was laugh out loud funny (which I haven’t done in years!) – parts of it are deliciously absurd. But beyond the wit and light humour lies some very thoughtful and poignant reflections on relationships (mother, daughter, friendships), and pressures of life. A great page turner that you will thoroughly enjoy and will leave you with a rye smile!! I highly recommend it and I do not often bother writing reviews so that says it all!
Wickedly funny, a page turner that somehow manages to pull at the heart strings at the same time… I didn’t know what to expect from this book, but I couldn’t put it down. The protagonist, Drea, is truly an anti-heroine of the modern age, an accidental mother whose witty and acerbic observations at the school gates had me in stitches from start to finish. The dialogue is brilliant, the plot is fast paced, but underlying all the black comedy are some very important themes about what it means to be a mother, about motherhood and society more generally, about coping with depression, and about why nothing is ever what it seems… everyone will love this book, but if you’re a mother, you HAVE to read it.
