Why Mummy Drinks with Adele Parks

Sentimental Garbage

Justice for Dumb Women

Sex And The City, Arts, Musicals, Society & Culture, Culture, Queer, Movies, Camp, Literature, Tv

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Why DOES Mummy Drink? This week we're talking about the Gill Simms blog-turned-literary sensation WHY MUMMY DRINKS. WMD tells the story of Ellen, a mother of two who drinks too much, swears too much, and probably likes her kids when she's not aggressively despising everyone around her. Bestselling author of Lies Lies Lies Adele Parks joins us to talk about her relationship with the series as well as school gates rivalries, solidarity between mums, being a single mother, diary formats in British literature and why "living in a society" is the basic job that everyone on earth is expected to have

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2:07.0	Hi and welcome to another episode of Sentimental Garavich is podcast where we talk about the chicklet that made us who we are.
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