Please recommend a book for a working mom.

[Anonymous]

I am looking for a novel to inspire someone. The main character needs to be a working mom who struggled but finally made a good balance between work and family duties, and eventually became successful both at home and workplace, and happy, this is important. If you know such a book, please share. I appreciate it!

[Anonymous]

Maybe you should write one, I’d totally read it!

[Anonymous]

If she enjoys mysteries with a local backdrop, she might enjoy Hush Hush by Laura Lippmann:

“Hush Hush (2015): Lippman specifically wrote this book to explore the realities of juggling childcare, managing tantrums, and the guilt associated with being a working mother.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she enjoys mysteries with a local backdrop, she might enjoy Hush Hush by Laura Lippmann:

“Hush Hush (2015): Lippman specifically wrote this book to explore the realities of juggling childcare, managing tantrums, and the guilt associated with being a working mother.”

Posting a trigger warning:

“But there are crimes that defy all attempts at understanding, where a search for motive seems pointless.
Melisandre Harris Dawes committed such a crime. Found not guilty by reason of insanity, she fled the country, leaving her two daughters with their father. Twelve years later, she’s back in Baltimore, and Tess is asked to provide security detail while Melisandre films a documentary about her attempts to reconcile with her now teenaged children.

Tess, juggling work with caring for her demanding toddler, is uneasy about the case. Still, Melisandre’s lawyer is family. And there is something about the woman herself—confident, beautiful, shrewdly intelligent—that draws Tess in. Is she a master manipulator or someone who was driven to temporary madness? Cold and calculating, or a mother concerned for her daughters’ well being? Someone is leaving Melisandre enigmatic, threatening notes. Soon Tess, insecure about her parenting abilities and receiving cryptic messages of her own, isn’t sure whether she should be protecting Melisandre from harm—or protecting everyone else from Melisandre.

When Melisandre becomes the prime suspect in a murder, Tess must uncover the truth. Doing so will mean confronting her deepest beliefs about what separates good parents from bad, madness from sanity, and what lengths even the most rational person will go to, to protect what they cherish most“

From Amazon listing.

[Anonymous]

You might try Finlay Donavan is Killing It.

Story of a single mother who writes crime novels, and someone in a coffee shop overhears her talking to an agent about her next book, thinks she's actually a contract killer, and hires her to kill her husband.

It's fun, farfetched, pretty gripping, and would probably be perfect for this scenario.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You might try Finlay Donavan is Killing It.

Story of a single mother who writes crime novels, and someone in a coffee shop overhears her talking to an agent about her next book, thinks she's actually a contract killer, and hires her to kill her husband.

It's fun, farfetched, pretty gripping, and would probably be perfect for this scenario.

PP to add it does end well for her, and is actually the beginning of a series.

I don't know that I would say it's inspirational...

[Anonymous]

https://www.amazon.com/How-Parent-Dr-Fitzhugh-Dodson/dp/B001IOQWUY

[Anonymous]

I thought Nora Goes Off Script was adorable.

[Anonymous]

I liked both Finlay Donovan and Nora Goes Off Script.

What about Lessons in Chemistry?

OP - it gets easier, I promise.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know how she does it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know how she does it.

I thought of this but it's got an almost affair in it.

Plus my older son picked this out of my bookbag one day and read it before I did and then I had to discuss why I was reading this book with him.

It's a bit of a parody like a rom com.

My son still occasionally mentions how the mom massaged the crust of the store-bought pie to make it look homemade.

Maybe there's an autobiography out there?
Madeline Albright?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/sep/18/gender.uk

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Nora Goes Off Script was adorable.

Yeah, I really liked this book!

[Anonymous]

An oldie but a goodie Meg Wolitzer's "The Ten Year Nap". There's this paragraph where she hears about someone else 'killing it' at work, and it's like "She wished there was a footnote that explained the secret." It's the idea that often other people have some kind of backdoor help they don't talk about. Many years ago I worked at an embassy abroad and there was a very senior woman whose own mother had literally quit her job and moved to the developing country to be the nanny for this woman's kids and if you knew that, you'd be like "Oh, that's why she's so chill about leaving the country for a week for a conference and doesn't wonder if her kids are safe or eating or whatever," -- except it was kind of a closely guarded secret. That kind of thing.

[Anonymous]

I loved What Alice Forgot