Allison Pearson is the author of the New York Times Notable Book and bestseller I Don't Know How She Does It and I Think I Love You. Named Newcomer of the Year at the British Book Awards for her first novel, Pearson has won numerous awards for her journalism. She is a columnist for The Telegraph (UK) and has also written for many other publications, including Time, The New York Times, Vogue, and Woman & Home. She lives in Cambridge, England, with the New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane and their two children.
You can find her on Twitter at @allisonpearson.
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Fiercely funny and keenly observant....couldn't be more timely or
delightful....Allison Pearson can induce gales of uncontrollable
laughter. --USA Today Filled with smart insights...Kate makes good
company. You can't help rooting for her. --The New York Times Book
Review With laugh-out-loud zingers on nearly every page...How Hard
Can It Be? is witty, current and a good reminder that age can be a
trump card, even if you need reading glasses to see the deck. --The
Washington Post
Hugely entertaining. --Time
Ms. Pearson writes with great wit and verve. --Wall Street Journal
Brilliant, funny, and tender....Tackling sexism, growing older, and
understanding one's needs when catering to those of so many others,
Pearson writes realism with all the fun of escapism. --Booklist
(starred review) The winning follow-up to Pearson's bestselling I
Don't Know How She Does It is anchored by heroine Kate Reddy's
authentic, intelligent, and consistently funny British
voice....Pearson maintains a humorous tone throughout, wresting
laughs from her lead's lowest moments and greatest triumphs.
Pearson also hits the right notes in conveying the cluelessness and
powerlessness parents feel raising teens obsessed by gaming and
social media. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) In this
side-splitting follow-up to I Don't Know How She Does It...the
electricity is positively sparkling....Laugh-out-loud yet all too
realistic....Spot on. --Library Journal (starred review) Pearson
has found a way to explore pressing questions--the delaying of
marriage and childbearing, the dangers of social media, the growing
anxiety of teenagers and their trouble gaining independence as
young adults, the crushing pressures on people caring for both
their kids and their parents--without sacrificing story for sermon.
--The Weekly Standard
Allison Pearson's penetrating observations of what it's like to be
the filling in this midlife sandwich are satisfyingly astute--she
just gets it and hits the nail on the head again and again. Some of
her observations are wildly funny, others bittersweet, but above
all a comfort to know that there are others out there in the same
boat. She describes a comprehensive list of menopausal symptoms
with aplomb and hilarity and every page has the reader either
laughing out loud or nodding in earnest agreement. --Buzzfeed
Laugh-out-loud funny and entirely relatable--you'll fall in love
with Kate all over again. --Popsugar
Filled with humor and wit, readers will cheer on Kate as she
navigates this frenzied life and struggles to hold everything--and
everyone--together. --Shereads.com "Few sequels beat the original,
but How Hard Can It Be? does so hands down. Kate Reddy's comeback
as a pushing-50 Returner," re-entering the workforce after a spell
on the mommy track, is zesty, razor-sharp, and hilarious. With a
robust absence of self-pity, she has defined the humiliating onset
of invisibility that coincides with the onrushing pressures of
parents, teenage kids, and a marriage gone flat, all while
attempting to reinstate her perilous professional worth. It's full
of such quotable casual profundity on the female condition I
couldn't read it without a pencil to underline the abundance of
great lines. Get ready for Kate!" --Tina Brown Written with
Allison's trademark wit and lacerating insight, How Hard Can It Be?
is an honest, hilarious look at being a woman of a certain age.
Anyone who, like me, adored Kate Reddy in "I Don't Know How She
Does It," will be delighted to revisit her fierce and honest take
on the figurative and literal bumpy bits of middle age. This book
is smart and sharp and funny, funny, funny. --Aline Brosh McKenna,
screenwriter of The Devil Wears Prada and co-creator of Crazy
Ex-Girlfriend
"The funniest and most feminist writing of the year...How Hard Can
It Be? is that rare thing: a sequel that matches and even surpasses
the original...Every line is meticulous; every reflection on
parenthood hilarious, or else so true it's heartbreaking." --The
Telegraph (UK) Funny and unflinching.--Elizabeth Day, author of The
Party Perceptive and funny....Allison Pearson has a gift for
comedy, but the best bits of How Hard Can It Be? are her sharp
asides about modern life. --The Times (U.K.) Sparkling, funny and
poignant. --Express
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