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Is 'mummy lit' done now? Or are there still good ones out there?

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Tortoiseonthehalfshell · 26/06/2014 01:53

Seems like about ten years after the first Bridget Jones book, there was an explosion of what the media insisted on calling 'Mummy Lit' - I Don't Know How She Does It, Secret Diary of a Slummy Mummy, etc.

And I know there's a bunch still out there, but I haven't read a good one since the above. Are there any you'd recommend? I'm a big fan of Christina Hopkinson's The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs - some quality ranting about the way that women get shafted in motherhood, in there. Stuff with a good vein of anger but is genuinely actually funny and well written? Anyone?

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Sylviecat · 29/06/2014 19:21

I too loved 'the pile of stuff at the bottom of the stairs.' Would love any similar recommendations?
Have you read 'night watch' by Sarah moss? I enjoyed that. For lighter reads, but not as fluffy or predictable as the covers make out, try any Fiona Gibson books.

BristolRover · 26/06/2014 15:44

Try Andrew Clover's "Dad Rules"

kazzawazzawoo · 26/06/2014 15:39

I don't have a problem with the term mummy lit. It's just a way of saying they're books about mums, possibly for mums. What's wrong with that!? And sometimes I fancy reading stuff like that. Thankfully we all have different taste.

Sorry, I can't think of any new ones at the moment though.

mum2jakie · 26/06/2014 13:26

If you have a Kindle, Amanda Egan's 'Diary of a Mummy Misfit' is a very entertaining read - Kindle only though. Currently £1.91. There is also a sequel available.

I don't mind the term Mummy lit. It's just shorthand for a genre of books...

Kikaninchen · 26/06/2014 11:40

I thought it was called "Baby sick lit".

MrsWinnibago · 26/06/2014 11:30

As you said Tortoise some of it is quality writing...modern fiction...not "Mummy Lit" or "Clit Lit"....but modern fiction aimed at women.

MrsWinnibago · 26/06/2014 11:29

It's just another way of confining women to "their place".

Oh look dear...your books are here! They're light and fluffy so your little head doesn't get too addled!

Angry
DuchessofMalfi · 26/06/2014 11:24

Knob novel :o or as someone else on Adult Fiction said - dick lit :o

Mummy lit indeed. Whatever next? I may be a mum but I have a brain and I read all kinds of novels. The term is despicable. I know that's not what you want to hear, but I'd hate to be confined to a tiny little genre such as that. I read to escape the frequent drudgery that is parenthood and dislike books that moan about it. Rant done :)

MrsWinnibago · 26/06/2014 11:07

You don't get men's literature being belittled in the same way do you? "Daddy Lit" or "Knob Novel".

MrsWinnibago · 26/06/2014 10:59

I HATE the term "Mummy Lit" as much as I do "Chick Lit". They're so demeaning to women.

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