Mum on the Run
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From the bestselling author of Mummy Said the F-Word and Lucky Girl. Fiona Gibson returns with a sparkling, witty novel, which fizzes off the page. Welcome to the world of Laura Weston, a Mum on the Run.
Sports Day at her children's school is never going to be an easy ride for Laura. She knows the other mothers have been in training for at least three months – even though they're trying to pretend that they haven't. Laura's vowed never to take part, but the morning of the School Sports Day she makes a simple but fatal error and promises her daughter that if she eats her Rice Crispies, she will run. With no escape, Laura is forced to take part and as she moves towards her inevitable humiliation, she is horrified to spot her husband Jed flirting with Celeste, the delectable French girl who works with him.
Determined to put up a fight and to show Jed there is still plenty of spice left in their marriage, Laura decides it is time to give her body the shape up it has been desperately crying out for. But when Laura makes a special new friend at the running club that she has joined, she gets much more than she bargained for. From buying sexy lingerie displayed alongside the gherkins at Tesco to struggling into the last playsuit in Topshop. Fiona Gibson provides a novel that is full of humour and conveys Laura as a true heroine of our times.
Mum on the Run is Fiona’s fifth novel and was inspired by her own horror at being forced to enter the mums’ race at school sports day. Angie had a chance to catch up with Fiona this week and ask her about her inspirations behind the book.
LISTEN TO ANGIE’S INTERVIEW WITH FIONA HERE
