A satire about competitive, over-protective parents driving their children to tutors, to ballet, to insanity ...
John O'Farrell is the author of seven books. His first book, Things Can Only Get Better, was a number one bestseller and was dramatized for BBC Radio 4. The Best a Man Can Get was the bestselling debut novel of 2002. As well as being a bestselling author, John O'Farrell is a regular contributor to television and radio. For the past five years he has written a weekly humorous column for the Guardian, three collections of which have been published as Global Village Idiot, I Blame the Scapegoats and I Have a Bream.
As hilarious as it is spot-on
*Mail on Sunday*
O'Farrell is a consistently humorous writer with an acute ear for
the absurdities of middle class pretension. It's hard to fault his
satire on competitive parenting or his conclusions regarding social
inequalities
*Mail on Sunday*
O'Farrell is one of the best contemporary satirists in the business
and he has middle class pushy mothers down to a tee in this latest
toe-curling, hackle-rising chronicle of hyper-parenting... The
one-liners are sublime and the comedic situations utterly
hilarious. Don't miss this
*Daily Record*
O'Farrell has scored a bullseye with this satirical salvo... Taps
into Middle England's neuroses with terrific wit
*The Herald*
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