A cute and humorous read, think Brigit Jones Diary with a husband, more alcohol and two kids. The book has many funny and clearly real life moments which bring a smile or a laugh. It gets a bit repetitive and goes on a bit too long. I found myself skimming the last third ready for it to be done. But a light and enjoyable read to help everyone remember that no one is perfect. Good for the beach or a plane journey.

I thought this book was going to be a non-fiction discussion on the pressures working mothers feel and how they cope. Finding out it was actually a fictional diary meant I didn’t enjoy it as much as I might have. Reading it you do wonder why the mummy had kids or got married as she really seems to hate her life. The repeated drinking, fighting and swearing got a bit tiresome. Maybe if you have kids this book would speak to you more. It certainly doesnt convince you that children are a great idea.

Some parts of it made me laugh enough that I was rather glad to be reading it at home. Other parts of it seemed a bit unrealistic, especially the plot line involving the app. I love the extended family and found the way that every character has their own insecurities very recognisable.
In comparison to the blog, there is much more storyline rather than single episodes to this, which I was glad to discover and the language is less ripe. I think the book is better, as characters and plot have time to develop and so there is less repetition than on the blog.

I don't follow the Facebook page this is based on, though I am aware of it due to how many of my friends share from it. I downloaded it as I had seen others post about it and thought I could do with a funny read for a change. This book made laugh to start with. It was genuinely funny and I thought I was in for a real treat, but I'm afraid it all just started to get quite repetitive for me. I could relate to some of Ellen's frustrations, but this soon wore thin, as in my mind, she had a rather comfy middle-class life and I couldn't really get my head around why she moaned about it so much. The events got less and less believable too. The Christmas fiasco for instance, and the sister-in-law and her children, none of it rang true. It was possibly trying to be funny but I didn't get it. I got to 70% with this and gave up as I was starting to skim read. Ellen's character just annoyed me too much and I stopped caring about any of it, so not really for me.

A surprisingly enjoyable read. Laughed out loud far too many times! A great quick read when you need to laugh hysterically alone with your dog

So funny! A bit surprised she uses name instead of nicknames like the ones in her FB page. Make me want to dig deeper her FB page!

Is it not possible to put a minus score?

The good news is that I only paid 10p for this book - the bad news is that I'd like my 10p back please.

I'd never heard of the Peter and Jane facebook page, nor the author but I will do my best to never come across it or her again.

The main character is an ungrateful, jealous, snobbish, mean-spirited, daily-fail-reading, brexit-voting, fatshaming abomination of a woman who goes through her over-privileged, spoiled rotten life bemoaning everything but her own selfish behaviour.

I've rewritten this three times to be kinder and more polite - I wish the author had had the same consideration for her readers.

This was funny and realistic. I liked that the character knew she was middle class and loved it too. I also like the app she created and would actually play it. I would not have lent that money though and felt that Louisa was a horrible selfish person who didn’t deserve help at all as it was mainly her own problem.