Calling all mums! What would you do if your husband had a fling? Have you ever had to keep a terrible secret from your kids? Do you sometimes wish you had a life outside being a mum? Are you pregnant and alone? Caroline, Mark, Susan and Lisa are as different as the parenting problems they face and each has their own reasons for logging on to the Mums@Home website for the very first time. At first they are cynical about the site - how can faceless people possibly help or understand what they are going through? But as the weeks pass and their family problems escalate, each of them begins to realise that Mums@Home has become a lifeline - somewhere to go for advice, to be heard, to escape, or to belong...Sophie King captures the zeitgeist once again with this warm, moving and engaging look at modern parenting and finding friends.
Sophie King (pen name for Jane Bidder) has been a journalist for over 25 years and contributes regularly to national newspapers and magazines including The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Express.
As Sophie King, she has written five best-selling novels - 'The School Run', Mums@home, Second Time Lucky , The Supper Club and The Wedding Party. All five were published by Hodder & Stoughton.
The Wedding Party was shortlisted for 'Love Story of The Year 2010', an award by the Romantic Novelists Association.
She has also written a series of children's books called "Family Memories" as well as several non-fiction books. Titles include : How To Write Short Stories For Magazines And Get Published; How To Write Your First Novel; How To Write Your Life Story; Tidy Your Room! How to get kids to do jobs they hate ; Everything a Parent Needs to know before their Child goes to University; Everything a Parent Needs to know before their Child goes to Secondary school.
In addition, Sophie has had hundreds of short stories published in magazines such as Woman's Weekly and My Weekly.
Sophie gives regular talks at bookshops and literary festivals including Winchester and Guildford. She runs nationwide workshops and has led a writing course on Thomson Dream, a cruise ship. Until her recent move to Devon, she tutored at Oxford University and West Herts College. For three years, she was writer in residence at HMP Grendon. She has also appeared several times on breakfast television and Woman's Hour, including a recent Christmas programme on rivalry in the kitchen !
In 2005, Sophie won the Elizabeth Goudge Short Story Trophy in 2005 and was a runner up in the Harry Bowling Prize. In addition, she is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association; Women in Journalism; the Society of Women Writers and Journalists and the National Union of Journalists.
She also writes historical novels as Jane Corry. Her recent book THE SECRET OF THE PEARL NECKLACE is currently number nine in the Italian charts.
More details at www.sophieking.info
