'Meet Elle Campbell. She's the glossy, lycraclad Mum with washboard abs and a ten-year plan. Abi Black has quit sugar, moved to the country and is homeschooling her kids while Liesel Adams slogs away every day at her city office job then rushes home steeped in guilt for a precious moment with her kids before bedtime. Three very different women sharing their lives online are suddenly thrown together when they are nominated for a prestigious #mummyblogger award. The scene is set for a brutal and often hilarious battle for hearts and minds but more importantly, likes and clicks! Sometimes life behind the screen is not as rosy as it seems . . .'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Dedication: For Brent McKean. The heart of our family. His mother's son.
How to Be Perfect
Crows Nest
:
Allen and Unwin
,
2018
14070516
2018
single work
novel
'What did you have for breakfast? Was it pure enough? Did it set you up for a day of grace, positive intentions and bum-selfies that would make a teenager weep? If not, Elle Campbell is here to help. She once led an army of ab-tastic mums, but after a public shaming she's reinvented herself as a mountain-top model of serenity. Elle presides over an exclusive retreat where women pay thousands to mimic her extreme lifestyle or die trying.
'Abi Black is blogging about her chaotic blended family from her falling-down farmhouse, trying to keep it together while her ex- husband is building a financial cult in the shed and her teenage daughter's YouTube channel is gaining followers for all the wrong reasons. All Abi wants is to marry her one true love, but the Internet—and Elle—appear to have other ideas.
'Frances Graham has a colicky newborn, an absent husband and a Whatsapp Mother's Group that's giving her anxiety. If she can just be more like those fitmums on Instagram things will get better. If she can scrape enough money together to make it to Elle's retreat, everything in her life will be just . . . perfect.
'Through a world of fake gurus, pretox parties, smug mummies and influencer angst, How to Be Perfect follows Elle, Abi and Frankie into the cult of self-improvement that's taken over your phone—and your breakfast.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
