"Can Any Mother Help Me?" - fascinating sounding book about a vinatge precursor to Mumsnet

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Anyone else heard about this ? A group of women wrote to each other for support and advice for over 50 years using pseudonyms - sound familar?

Thank you deweydell, I have emailed.

Agree looks amazing. Really want to read it. Another review from the Guardian this weekend here

Hey, I'm here at work. Are you liking it?

Wow, this sounds amazing!

I must confess to having a tear in my eye when I got to the end of the last paragraph.

of the Independent article I mean

I meant to start a thread about this last week when I bought the book.
It's brilliant. Made me think of MN straight away and made me cry on the tube on the way to work a good few times.
It is true, you feel like they are your friend in the end! All with the same problems - albeit I feel I should stop complaining about the amount of housework considering all the help we get...
I absolutely loved it!!
I bought it for my mum and MIL as well. I wish DH would read it too (he probably feels as if he did read it for how much I am talking about it).
I don't kind if I didn't get it free because I want the ook to be at the top of the bestseller list - the author deserves it!!
WELL DONE!!!
I am half way through and I'll be sorry when I finished it!!

dewey, a lot of my friends in italy would love to read it too, might have to send them some translated extracts.

This looks fab - will keep an eye out for the 10% off link on MN next month.

i read about this in the paper deweydell, it sounds like a lovely book, well done.

i bump this one as I think a lot of you will like this!

deweydell, thanks ever so much for the book. I will start it this weekend. I was so excited when the postman arrived!!

Thanks again

is aw it saturday in waterstone's in town. i couldn't get it cos i'd already spent too much that day (oops! ) but i did think that it was like mumsnet. i look forwards to buying a copy thru mumsnet dewydell.

Mine hasn't arrived yet - but I can hardly wait! There's something Royal Mail are supposed to be redelivering that might be it ....... oooh I'm so excited!!

Gosh Deweydell! Parcel arrived this morning! (Just in time for Mothers Day ) I am overwhelmed, I really am! It's totally over the top to send the other books too but I'm thrilled! Thank you so so much - I'm so glad I started this thread

That sounds lovely. Was it really still going till 1990 in a linen folder? Amazing.

My copy arrived on Saturday, thank you very much.

I haven't started it yet as I am still wading my way through The Corrections (can't believe how long it has taken me to read that book), going on holiday next week so don't want to take it on holiday as it is far too nice a book to get all grotty with sand and suncream. However as soon as I get back it will be at the top of my reading pile. Looking forward to it!

Thanks again!

Not sure if this thread is till being watched, but I have jsut started reading "Can any mother help me?". And am loving it. My mum bought me a copy for Easter, as my gran was one of CCCs members.