Мег Мэйсон – лучшие книги

Все говорят Марте, что она умная и красивая, что она прекрасная писательница, горячо любимая мужем, которого, по словам ее матери, надо еще поискать. Так почему на пороге своего сорокалетия она такая одинокая, почти безработная и постоянно несчастная? Почему ей может потребоваться целый день, чтобы встать с постели, и почему она постоянно отталкивает окружающих своими едкими, небрежными замечаниями? Когда муж, любивший ее с четырнадцати лет, в конце концов не выдерживает и уходит, а сестра заявляет, что она устала мириться с ее тараканами, Марте не остается ничего иного, как вернуться в дом к своим родителям, но можно ли, разрушив все до…

To jest opowieść o Marcie. Ale mogłaby być o każdym z nas. Odkąd sięga pamięcią, Martha czuła, że coś jest z nią nie w porządku. Wszyscy mówili jej: "Weź się w garść". Próbowała. Naprawdę wolałaby żyć tak jak inni. Ale przez większość czasu głównie chciało jej się wyć. Albo schować. Pod stół. Kiedy po latach w końcu słyszy od lekarza prawidłową diagnozę, myśli, że na wszystko w jej życiu jest już za późno. A może wcale nie?
Powieść rozgrywa się w Londynie i Oksfordzie. Jest smutna i zabawna.

What do you do, when you find the perfect family…
…and it’s not yours?
The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pack up her old life in Croydon fast enough, to start all over in Sydney and make her own family.
It is not until she arrives, with three-week-old Jude in tow, that Abi realises Stu is not quite ready to be a father after all. And he is the only person she knows in this hot, dazzling, confusing city, where the job of making friends is turning out to be harder than she thought.
That is, until she meets Phyllida, her wealthy, charming, imperious older neighbour, and they become almost like mother and daughter.
If only Abi had not told Phil that teeny tiny small lie, the very first day they met…

A hilarious and unvarnished look at motherhood.

At twenty-four, Meg Mason was newly married to a man "essentially indistinguishable from a young Matt Damon" after landing her dream job writing for The Times in London. Nothing, she told herself, could possibly go wrong. A holiday shortage of birth control and eight months later, she was heavily pregnant and sobbing on the side of a road over trading her career for something she knew zip about.

But she soldiered on. One fine Sunday, she invented motherhood by Having a Baby. On Monday, she discovered that a bunch of women had already done that, but still they couldn't tell her how to do it. Thanks to a helpful neighbour, she learned that convincing a newborn to take a bottle by letting it lick a Dorito first to "get more thirsty" didn't always work, but not what to do when your child won't sleep for roughly two years, why making friends at the park is more difficult than meeting deadlines, or how to remove your hand from a stroller-after you've Super-Glued it to the handle.

Hair-raising and hilarious, Say It Again in a Nice Voice is the story of Meg's journey from parenting novice to . . . well . . . Meg With Kids. Along the way she discovers that being a mother, however disasterprone, might just be the only thing that she is truly irreplaceable at.