Allison Pearson presents "How Hard Can It Be?"

When:
Thursday, Jun 07, 2018 7:00p -
8:30p

Where:
Wellesley Books
82 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02482

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Admission:
$5.00

Categories:
Art, Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
https://store.wellesleybooks.com/event/allison-pearson

This is a free event, however we ask that you RSVP at https://goo.gl/KdLQgD.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Hilarious and poignant, the new adventures of Kate Reddy, the beleaguered heroine of Allison Pearson's groundbreaking New York Times bestseller I Don't Know How She Does It.


Kate Reddy had it all: a nice home, two adorable kids, a good husband. Then her kids became teenagers (read: monsters). Richard, her husband, quit his job, taking up bicycling and therapeutic counseling: drinking green potions, dressing head to toe in Lycra, and spending hundreds of hours—and dollars—on his own therapy. Since Richard no longer sees a regular income as part of the path to enlightenment, it’s left to Kate to go back to work.


Companies aren’t keen on hiring 49-year-old mothers, so Kate does what she must: knocks a few years off her age, hires a trainer, joins a Women Returners group, and prepares a new resume that has a shot at a literary prize for experimental fiction.


When Kate manages to secure a job at the very hedge fund she founded, she finds herself in an impossible juggling act: proving herself (again) at work, dealing with teen drama, and trying to look after increasingly frail parents as the clock keeps ticking toward her 50th birthday. Will Kate reclaim her rightful place at the fund, or strangle in her new “shaping” underwear? Will she rekindle an old flame, or will her house burn to the ground when a rowdy mob shows up for her daughter’s surprise (to her parents) Christmas party? Surely it will all work out in the end. After all, how hard can it be?


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALLISON PEARSON is the author of the hugely bestselling I Don't Know How She Does It, which was a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a national bestseller. She has written for The Daily Telegraph, The Times (UK), The Daily Mail, Time, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Observer. Pearson's many awards include Columnist of the Year, Critic of the Year and Interviewer of the Year. She lives in Cambridge, England, with the New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane, and their two children


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