All the Other Mothers Hate Me
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"The missing boy is 10-year-old Alfie Risby, and to be perfectly honest with you, he's a little shit."
Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her girl band career, she has only one reason to get out of bed each day: her ten-year-old son Dylan. But then Alfie Risby, her son’s bully and the heir to a vast frozen food empire, mysteriously vanishes during a class trip, and Dylan becomes the prime suspect. Florence, for once, is faced with a task she can’t quit: She’s got to find Alfie and clear her son’s name, or risk losing Dylan forever.
The only problem? Florence has no useful skills, let alone investigative ones, and all the other school moms hate her. Oh, and Florence has a reason to suspect Dylan might not be as innocent as she’d like to believe…
Hilarious and twisted, propulsive and furious, All the Other Mothers Hate Me is the must-read book of 2025.
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Meet Florence Grimes, thirtysomething ex-singer from girl band Girl's Night, sister of Brooke, mother to 10 year old Dylan, and chaos personified. Disaster, thy name is Florence.
A couple of chapters in, it was plain to see why all the other mother's hated her. I wasn't feeling too enamored myself.
For all her faults, and there are many, Florence does love her son, although her parenting skills leave much to be desired. When she suspects that Dylan may know more about the disappearance of one of his classmates than he's let on, Florence decides to investigate, with the help of new friend Jenny.
This was quite a fun read. Yes, I know there's a missing child and other criminal activities, but it's hard not to laugh at some of Florence's hare brained schemes, and the situations she finds herself in.
FYI: By the end of the book I was starting to like Florence. 🐢
Thanks to 4th Estate Books and Netgalley for the digital ARC.
