Dorrie, Dorrie, Dorrie - oh how I empathise with this character. She appears in two stories in this short collection of nine, and if she had been in every one, I would would have given the book five stars. These two stories about her struggles with three young children were so wonderfully written, so true, so heartfelt, the first one made me cry, and then made me text my twenty-year-old son to tell him I loved him. Some of the other stories are great too, some, such as the first, Lentils and Lilies didn't work so well for me. And I suppose one criticism might be that in general these were all about white middle-class women in 'traditional' relationships - where is the diversity? Still, I highly recommend this especially for fathers, and mothers, oh, and everyone.