The Sunday Salon – Mums@Home again (a review)

After my earlier Sunday Salon post, I have now managed to finish Mums@Home by Sophie King, so two Sunday Salon posts in one Sunday! Mums@Home turned out to be an easy but engrossing read, perfect for a lazy, sunny, not too taxing Sunday. Involving an interesting premise about the lives of the parents who post on an internet parenting site and how they intertwine with each other, it is typical chick-lit but quite cleverly done. I like Sophie King’s use of other media to segment her work, in The School Run she used clips from the radio and in Mums@Home she used internet messages.

I thought this one was a bit better than Sophie King’s The School Run, which was very orientated towards mothers and their children (although there was a token male). As I said before, Mums@Home is still chick-lit and does involve troublesome teenagers and nasty spouses quite heavily but I think this one is more relevant and has something more for the general reader.

Now back to my crime thriller, had my chick-lit dose over and done with for quite a while.