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Praise for Mum on the Run:
‘Frivolous fun.’ Grazia
‘Warm, funny and poignant.’ The Daily Mail
;’Brilliant…manages to capture family life perfectly.’ Chick Lit Reviews
Praise for Mummy Said the F Word:
‘Gibson is on top form… laugh-out-loud funny, warm and compelling’
News of the World
‘Crisp and funny… Caitlin is appealingly intelligent and sardonic, whether coping with persistent kids or the comically disastrous attentions of younger men.’
Financial Times
‘Sharply observed, funny and captures the warmth and clutter of family life.’
Daily Mail
Praise for Lucky Girl:
‘Gibson writes like an angel. She is the voice of modern woman.’
Marie Claire
‘Lovely, heartwarming, immensely readable.’
Jenny Colgan
Praise for Babyface:
A fantastic debut. More than funny, it’s true.
‘Louise Bagshawe’
A fantastic debut. More than funny, it’s true.
Louise Bagshawe
‘A bitter-sweet take on bringing up baby in modern times and a great first book.’
Heat
Praise for Wonderboy:
‘Fans of rueful social comedy will chortle over the escapades of Ro… witty expose of the perils and pitfalls of relocation.’
Elle
‘Addictive.’ Company
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Laura Swan was dreading the school sports day Mum’s race - but whoever would have thought it could be quite so life-changing?
Sports Day at her children's school is a nightmare for Laura because of the event she dreads – the Mums' Race. She knows the other mothers have been in training for at least three months – even though they're trying to pretend that they haven't. Laura's vowed never to take part, but the morning of the School Sports Day she makes a fatal error and promises her daughter that if she eats her Rice Crispies, she will run. With no escape, Laura is forced to take part and as she moves towards her inevitable humiliation, she is horrified to spot her husband Jed flirting with Celeste the delectable French girl who works with him.
Determined to put up a fight and to show Jed there is still plenty of spice left in their marriage, Laura decides it is time to give her body the work out it has been desperately crying out for. But when Laura makes a special new friend at the running club that she has joined, she gets much more than she bargained for.
From buying sexy lingerie displayed alongside the gherkins at Tesco to struggling into the last playsuit in Topshop, this novel is full of humour and Laura is a true heroine for our times. A sparkling, witty novel, that fizzes off the page.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Mum on the Run,
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This review is from: Mum On The Run (Paperback)
The first thing I'd like to say is that despite how much I enjoyed it, Mum on the Run is a fairly typical run-of-the-mill Chick Lit novel. Yes, I managed to complete it in a day but it is fairly similar to other Chick Lit novels I've read in the past. The plot is one you see many times, after having a couple of kids (or in Laura's case, three) the main character isn't as slim as she used to be, there's a new woman on the scene catching the eye of her husband and she goes on a diet of some sort to try and win him back. Very familiar. Not to mention, the obligatory nicer man who in this case is the loveable Danny. So although the plot itself didn't grab me, and wasn't as unique as Lucky Girl, I actually did like the book. It might have been a run-of-the-mill plot but Gibson's writing style still makes it hard to put down.The official synopsis says Laura is a heroine for the decade (or something similar) and I do agree with that, kind of. It's very hard to judge who the heroine of a decade will be before the decade is over, but I loved Laura. Right from the shambles that was sports day when she made an absolute fool of herself, I was captivated. She's definitely a character you root for, and boy was I rooting for her. It took me a while to warm to Jed, her husband, because he seemed very distant and into the new colleague of his, but I think overall he wasn't a bad person, he just let someone new and shiny take over his brain for a while. I loved Laura and Jed's kids, Finn, Grace and Toby, all three had such wonderful personalities and Gibson really excels at making her kids in her novels believable. I must admit, I kinda fell for Danny, Laura's running partner, he was just so sweet and kind and I could see why Laura was friendly with him. I must admit, as someone who doesn't yet have kids and won't for probably some time, if ever, I do usually find it hard to get into mumsy-type stories because I don't truly know what it's like to be a mother. But Gibson does a wonderful job of selling motherhood (or rather, putting me off for life) and it comes across in a very believable way, in a way that lets childless people like myself know exactly what it takes to be a mother. It definitely seems like a thankless task, being a mother, I have to say. Mum on the Run is told from Laura's point of view, which was brilliant, and worked very well especially as it made us more sympathetic to Laura's life and how much it's stagnated since she had kids. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, despite the plot I've read many times before as Gibson is definitely able to put her own spin on the matter and her writing abilities are brilliant and she manages to capture family life perfectly. I really hope this is the first of many new novels from Fiona Gibson as I love her books.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Read,
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This review is from: Mum On The Run (Paperback)
Mum on the Run is the first book by Fiona Gibson that I've read and I thought it was great. I loved the relaxed style of writing, it only took me about 4-5 hours to devour the whole book.Laura Swan has a pretty hectic lifestyle, mum to three young children, with a home and a husband to look after plusher job as a hairdresser to keep on top of. Things come to a head when she is forced into running the mums' race at sport's day, things do not go well and Laura is left red-faced, especially as her husband Jed and his beautiful colleague Celeste made a surprise appearance just as she was reaching the finishing line. Determined to get fit, Laura joins a slimming club and decides to go running. She meets Danny who is also trying to shift a few pounds; they decide to become running buddies and are soon meeting up two or three times a week. Laura doesn't tell Jed about her new friend though, she's not too sure why as she doesn't feel as though she is doing anything wrong. Laura's suspicions of Jed and Celeste's relationship grows, she loves her husband but she just has an awful feeling that something isn't quite right. The tension between her and Jed only causes her to spend more time with Danny. Danny who makes her feel so comfortable and interesting. However, Laura cannot ignore the cracks in her marriage forever, but is it too late? Have her and Jed been keeping too many secrets from each other? I loved Laura's character, to be honest I don't know how you couldn't like her. I don't have any children yet so I couldn't really identify with that aspect of Laura's character but it didn't mean that I found the book any less enjoyable. I think that Fiona Gibson has identified how we often find ourselves stuck in a rut and that we have to have a lot of willpower and determination to get ourselves out of it. As someone who took up running late last year, I really enjoyed this part of the story and was soon laughing out loud as I remembered my first jog around the park. I highly recommend Mum on the Run as one of those books that is extremely entertaining whilst also lifting your spirits.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Mum On The Run,
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This review is from: Mum On The Run (Paperback)
Mum on the Run tells the story of Laura Swan, a mother of three, who dreads the mum's race at her children's school sports day. Seeing she has no other choice, she takes up running in a bid to get fit and lose weight and she even finds herself with a running partner - Danny, who understands exactly how she feels.Mum on the Run is pure and utter chick lit and while the story doesn't particularly offer up anything new and has been done before, it somehow still manages to feel fresh. The biggest thing going for this book is the wit and humour that Fiona Gibson has delightfully scattered throughout the story, which had me laughing on several occasions. Also, Laura's children were a delight to read about, with their quirky and humourous one liners, they had me laughing all the way through. I would say that like a lot of chick lit books the story is quite predictable and I ultimately knew as I read the book how it was going to end, however, it was still fun getting there and I would still recommend this book to lovers of chick-lit. This is a light and easy read that you can easily dip in and out of or devour in one go.
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