What About Me?

by KateFiges (Author)

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  Unabridged
  2005

  $3.47

  Sue is a forty-six year old GP, mother of two, wife of one. Frankie is her elder daughter, just fourteen, ready to start out in life. The pair are diametrically opposite in years and energy, yet both teeter on the brink of the next big thing. For Sue, forty-six meeting fourteen is where menopause matches adolescence, anxiety is a mother's middle name, and the new best thing is going to bed. And Frankie? She's thrown off the sugar and spice chrysalis, is surgically attached to her mobile phone, and is learning about boys, padded bras and the absurdities of her parents. Nothing in common? Well, for starters weight worries, man troubles and a shared desire to break free of the shackle that is home. Oh, and their emails and diaries...Wickedly funny, perceptive and at times very tender, What About Me? is a wonderful portrait of real life in an average household, sure to strike a familiar chord with mothers and daughters everywhere.

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  Paperback
  2004

  $4.47

  Sue is a 45-year-old GP, trying hard to marry work and family life while coping with the symptoms of her encroaching menopause. Her daughter Frankie, is just 14, beautiful and fun, but also at the age of swift change when teenagers can be at their least attractive, focused only on clothes, friends and boys.As Sue remembers all the agonies and ecstasies of her own teenage years , Frankie is both excited and aghast at hers - and can't decide whether her mother is to be her enemy or her best friend. And meanwhile, Sue's husband Matthew is exhibiting his own signs of mid-life crisis, buying a motor bike and flirting with Frankie's friends. Poor Frankie is stuck between a mother who tries desperately to bond with her in the changing rooms of Top Shop, and her father, who will insist of being his own version of a hip young man. And then Sue discovers she's pregnant...Told in the form of e mails from Sue to her sister, and the inimitable voice of Frankie in her diary, this is a lovely, wry novel which looks, with a refreshing twist, at life at its most challenging stages.