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Tired and Tested

The Wild Ride into Parenthood

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Tired and Tested

By: Sophie McCartney
Narrated by: Sophie McCartney
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About this listen

Welcome to the jungle....

When you’ve grown up thinking your 20s are all about working hard, playing hard and trying not to get pregnant, life comes at you fast when you go from hump to bump.

So you thought adulthood would mean a high-flying career and a luxury lifestyle but instead have ended up with a Lycra-based wardrobe and a deep fear of what lies at the bottom of the ball-pit in soft play?

Join comedian Sophie McCartney as she voyages deep into the uncharted territories of mating, birthing, feral offspring, mums overdoing it at the watering hole and the perilous viper’s nest of the school WhatsApp group.

With laugh-out-loud humour and eye-watering honesty, Sophie shows how whether you’ve had a day full of whining or a night full of wine, there’s joy to be had in the perfectly imperfect wild ride into parenthood.

©2022 Sophie McCartney (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Motherhood Parenting & Families Relationships Women Comedy Funny

Critic Reviews

"Reassuring, relatable and laud-out-loud funny - I loved it!" (Sarah Turner, The Unmumsy Mum)

"If you’re looking for the funniest mum on Instagram, you’ve found her!" (Mother & Baby)

"Brilliant! Painfully accurate and criminally funny. Like a chat with your most outrageous friend." (Ellie Taylor)
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Absolutely fantastic, the book is a raw and real peak into Sophie's journey.
I loved it.

Can't wait for the next book.

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This book and Sophie are so relatable. Such an amazing book and the narration is phenomenal. Do yourself a favour and listen for yourself.

Amazing

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Listening to this book, 8 months postpartum and four months, pregnant meant I laughed and cried. This book seemed to perfectly sum up so many of the emotions that I have been feeling. It
resonated with my personal journey so closely which made me realise a lot of what I’ve been feeling is really normal, thank you!

Fantastic book, so real

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absolutely love everything second and so many laughs u could love this book anymore than I do

loving every second

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