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Novels that namecheck Mumsnet :)
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TheMemoryLingers · 15/02/2020 10:26
I was amused when a book I was reading on the train yesterday mentioned Mumsnet - the protagonist had apparently spent a lot of time on Mumsnet and, in the story, was on there again looking for advice about her son's problems. The novel was 'Don't tell teacher' by Suzy K Quinn.
I wondered what other novels namecheck Mumsnet and if any writers on here have ever included Mumsnet in their books (Suzy K Quinn, if you are on here IRL, your book kept me sane by absorbing me on a packed and delayed train, so thank you 
).
If you've read (or written) a book that mentions Mumsnet, what was the book and why did MN come into it?
Bezalelle · 15/02/2020 11:58
If I remember correctly, it's mentioned in Sophie Hannah's "Haven't They Grown".
TheMemoryLingers · 15/02/2020 12:06
Ah ha - I've got that on my 'to read' list because I like Sophie Hannah and (as always with her novels) the premise sounds really intriguing, so I'll look out for the Mumsnet mention.
Sadik · 15/02/2020 12:28
The Why Mummy Drinks series definitely do (IIRC one of the characters threatens to start a parking thread with diagrams ). Definitely in the 3rd one, can't remember for sure if the earlier ones do but I think so.
TheMemoryLingers · 15/02/2020 12:38
I haven't come across those, Sadik but it's quite a Mumsnetty sort of series title 
. I'll look out for them.
WhiteBadger · 15/02/2020 12:54
Pretty sure it's in Sweatpea
Loved that book!
Dancetherain · 15/02/2020 13:04
Am reading Playgroups and prosecco by Jo Middleton, Mumsnet is mentioned a lot
TheMemoryLingers · 15/02/2020 13:04
Just looked Sweetpea up on Amazon and it looks great - I love a good thriller. I didn't start this thread to get a reading list but it seems to be what's happened .
TheMemoryLingers · 15/02/2020 13:10
Playgroups and prosecco
Is an alcohol theme emerging here? .
WhiteBadger · 15/02/2020 13:41
@TheMemoryLingers please read it! I don't know anyone that has.
I genuinely laughed out loud all the way through!!
Maybe it's just me!!
NC4Now · 15/02/2020 13:44
One of Gillian McAllister’s does - I cant remember which though. No Further Questions maybe.
TheMemoryLingers · 15/02/2020 15:31
It's on the list now, WhiteBadger. I like Gillian McAllister too so will probably come across her reference sooner or later while feeding my book addiction.
PaperFlowers4 · 15/02/2020 18:45
Kate Atkinson’s Big Sky mentions mumsnet, but I can’t remember the context
southeastdweller · 15/02/2020 21:06
I do wonder if Kate Atkinson is on here. In A God of Ruins, Mumsnet is referenced when a novelist character remembers a one line comment on MN about one of her books.
In Those People, one of the characters is one of those 'mumpreneurs' who runs a parents website and is indignant when her SIL says her job isn't a real one. She says something like 'the families of the MN founders wouldn't talk to them like that'.
BookWitch · 15/02/2020 21:09
Not a novel but reading Jo Brand's Born Lippy at the moment and she mentions MN several times
TheMemoryLingers · 16/02/2020 10:01
It's ages since I've read a Kate Atkinson. I'm sure I have heard Jo Brand mention MN on TV (a poster called 'EatShitDerek' I think) - I could easily imagine her being on here. Probably a standing temptation to novelists with writer's block!
BookWitch · 17/02/2020 06:29
Jo brand says she mostly lurks but does weigh in on an AIBU from time to time.
StripyHorse · 26/03/2020 22:33
Kate Atkinson mentions MN in Big Sky too.
WisestIsShe · 29/03/2020 19:28
Ben Elton's Identity Crisis definitely gives a shout to Mumsnet.
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