Her dad and friends support her decisions in life and encourage her to go and find herself a new man with some hilarious consequences. With her mum and sister still looking down on her and disapproving of leaving Simon and her new property, Ellen’s stress levels reach a new high. With Simon hoping of a reconciliation, Ellen is having none of it and continues arguing with him at every given opportunity and looks to take solace in wine or whatever other alcohol she can get her hands on. They also have there pet dog but Ellen feels that being in a new house means they should also have a new dog too and she goes to the rescue centre with the aim of getting a Staffy and ends up bringing home ‘The World’s Ugliest Dog’ !
Jane is also finding out about alcohol and boys as well, with Ellen trying to find out about what her daughter is up to by stalking her using Peter’s Instagram account.
The poor children in Peter and Jane who think that they are grown up now at 13 and 15 but still bicker with each other as well as their mum, end up living with Ellen in the new cottage which doesn’t turn out to be as dreamy as Ellen first thought it was with mould up the walls, damp all over the place and mice crawling around and sharing the place with them. Taking that as he wants to leave her, Ellen gets in first and kicks him out, starts divorce proceedings and sells the family house to buy who dream cottage in the country while Simon ends up buying a swish flat in town. Having tried to get on with it and attend relationship counselling, Ellen can’t but help but speak before she engages brain at both the counsellor and Simon about things and she finds that Simon has somewhat fallen out of love with her and needs some time apart to consider his true feelings. Why Mummy Doesn’t Give a ****! carries on not long after Why Mummy Swears, with our heroine, Ellen still reeling from the admission by her husband, Simon that he slept with a random woman whilst on a trip to Spain. Turn those four asterisks into four letters of your choice to make up a rude word and you have a great great title for a book.
Her follow up to this book has been released recently among a fanfare of advertising and with the outrageous and hilarious title of ‘Why Mummy Doesn’t Give a ****!’. ‘Why Mummy Swears’ was a hilarious story about being a mum of two youngish children who are approaching adolescence and things in her life are getting on top of her so alcohol or more than the odd expletive is a great help to get by in life. It was entitled ‘Why Mummy Likes to Drink’ and I enjoyed it so much that I put her on my watch list for anything else that she might publish. Similar to my last book review, back in November 2018 I for the first time read a book by an author called Gill Sims.
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