Take Mum Out by Fiona Gibson

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Alice Sweet; single mum of two teenage boys, school secretary and with a budding meringue business, her life is absolutely fine as far as she is concerned. As her thirteen year old son says, what does she need a boyfriend for? She’s a mum!! She doesn’t NEED a man; she’s quite capable of building her own flat packs – and as for sex, well, that seems unnecessary and pretty alarming now – at least you know where you are with meringues! Her friends would beg to differ, urging her to ‘get back out there’. After a disastrous date with a man with a proclivity for kitchen utensils and Botox, Alice decides to take her friends up on their offers to each fix her up with a man of their choosing.
So follows three dates with three very different men. Stephen, the quiet dentist, single father to a girl around whom his life revolves. Giles, the younger man with a penchant for older women. Journalist Charlie, fun loving and with a predilection for booze who whisks her off to Paris. Then there is the owner of the deli, tall, dark-eyed and sexy who catches her eye.....
With genuine laugh aloud moments of hilarity this is a real heart-warming and fun book. Alice’s encounters with her dates are very amusing and so well written you can actually imagine them taking place; you will laugh along and cringe with her as she comes up against the arrogance and assumptions of her dates and your heart will melt when she finally chooses Mr Right.
The interludes with her two teenage boys, her mother and her friends are scenes that any mum will recognise; that inner struggle when you have to be a child and a mother and appease your own mother with a lot of tongue biting; the moment when you realise you have to let your babies grow up and the sheer relaxation of letting yourself go with friends you trust. It’s all there in this wonderful, delightful novel – one to be loved and shared.

With thanks to Netgalley and HarperCollins Uk for the ARC of this book.




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