Kirsty Scott Livres

Back when they were young, Cate and Margie's friendship meant the world to them. But now they're worlds apart.Cate's living in Scotland with her gorgeous husband Dan and their perfect her life apparently a textbook example of domestic bliss.Margie, meanwhile, is a vision of career success. Her on-off boyfriend is a dashing war correspondent and her own job, as a highly-paid television executive, is exciting and demanding. To anyone looking in, her life is enviable.Then a school reunion brings them back together and it will be just in time. As their lives start spinning in unexpected new directions, having a best friend once more might be exactly what both women need...

It's the first day of term and outside the school gates gossip hums, SUVs swarm and Boden abounds. Yet these three very different mothers are about to discover that friends are the only accessories they need. Stay-at-home mum Gwen has three engaging kids and a blissful marriage to Rob. Her biggest worries are a bottom that sometimes keeps moving after she's stopped and a toddler obsessed with reproductive organs - until two bombshells cause her perfect world to crumble. Working mum Alison is devoted to her daughter, but since juggling motherhood with a career has left her with cellulite to her Achilles, an iguana costume to make and a permanent headache, a larger family is the only thing NOT on her to-do list... Trophy wife Katherine seems rich, glamorous and carefree. In fact, her husband only ever touches her as he guides her into social functions like a butcher sliding a prime cut across a countertop... Her kids barely know she exists either. A deliciously warm, funny and moving take on being a mum, making new friends and dealing with the posturing and politics of the playground - something we never really leave behind...

Katherine, Alison und Gwen haben eines gemeinsam: Ihre Töchter besuchen allesamt eine renommierte Privatschule in Edinburgh. Aber damit scheinen die Gemeinsamkeiten auch schon zu enden, denn während Katherine das Leben einer verwöhnten Gattin aus besten Kreisen führt, ist den beiden anderen Frauen das süße Nichtstun nicht vergönnt. Doch als Katherines Mann sie aus scheinbar heiterem Himmel verlässt und Alison immer deutlicher erkennt, dass es gar nicht so leicht ist, als Mutter Karriere zu machen, muss sich eine Freundschaft bewähren, die gerade erst angefangen hat ...