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Allison Pearson is the author of the hugely bestselling I Don't Know How She Does It, which became a major motion picture starring Sarah Jessica Parker, and I Think I Love You. Pearson was named Newcomer of the Year at the British Book Awards for her first book. She has written for The Daily Telegraph, The Times (UK), The Daily Mail, Time, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Observer and countless other publications. Pearson has won many awards including Columnist of the Year, Critic of the Year and Interviewer of the Year. She lives in Cambridge, England, with the New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane, and their two children.
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This is
your first novel. What made you decide to write it?
I read a Stress Survey in Good Housekeeping magazine two years ago. It
said that all that most working women wanted for Mother's Day was a bit of
time to themselves. It also said they were too tired to have sex with their
husbands and felt they were failing both at work and as a parent. I thought
about my life and the lives of my friends with young children and I realized we
were all being driven crazy by the pressure we were under juggling work and
family. I thought it was a great subject - borderline farce, but full of
incredibly poignant moments as you find yourself torn between responsibility to
your children and the office. I wrote an article about working mothers in my
opinion column in the London Evening Standard and I got literally hundreds of
letters from women, all saying: That's My Life! It felt as though I'd opened
a small door onto a parallel world and on the other side was this huge amount of
unacknowledged feeling.
Then, I attended a discussion on work-life balance at the London Business School
and the professional women in the room started to share their stories. One
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