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A hilarious, straight-talking read for fans of Fiona Gibson’s The Mum Who Got Her Life Back and Sarah Morgan’s Family for Beginners. Previously published as ‘The School Gate Survival Guide’. Maia is a cleaner for ladies who lunch. With mops and buckets in tow, she spends her days dashing from house to house cleaning up after them, as they rush from one exhausting Pilates class to the next.But an unusual inheritance catapults her and her children into the very exclusive world of Stirling Hall School – a place where no child can survive without organic apricots and no woman goes a week without a manicure.As Maia and her children, Bronte and Harley, try to settle into their new life, Maia is inadvertently drawn to the one man who can help her family fit in. But is his interest in her purely professional? And will it win her any favours at the school gate?A hilarious, straight-talking read for anyone who's ever despaired at the politics of the school run.
A sudden inheritance forces a working-class mother to navigate the high-stakes social hierarchy of an elite private school. Maia, a cleaner accustomed to the domestic lives of the wealthy, finds herself thrust into the exclusive environment of Stirling Hall School with her two children. She must balance her own identity and financial reality against the pressures of a community obsessed with status, organic diets, and rigid social expectations. The narrative follows her attempts to integrate into this foreign world while managing a complicated attraction to a man who holds the key to her family's social survival.
This novel is characterized by its lighthearted approach to the anxieties surrounding modern parenting and social status. The narrative style suggests a focus on observational humor, utilizing the protagonist's outsider status to highlight the absurdities of the wealthy enclave she enters. The plot threads indicate a balance between the protagonist's personal growth and the external pressures of her new environment. Readers likely find the tone accessible and the social commentary grounded in recognizable, everyday frustrations.
Page Count:
368
Publication Date:
2014-07-03
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN-10:
0007570244
ISBN-13:
9780007570249
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