Going Ga Ga - Couverture souple

Can you really have children and still be the same woman you were before?

Can you still be a dependable friend, career-girl with a decent hairdo, party animal and sexual athlete? Or must you enter the world of stain-infested, hairy-legged zombies who know all the verses to 'I'm a Little Teapot'? Mel Giedroyc is about to find out.

When Mel's husband Dan quits his job, life gets interesting. Especially since they are just about to move into a house they can't afford and take on two nubile lodgers from Eastern Europe. Welcome to the relentless carnival of sleep deprivation, sinister toddler groups, buggy rage, competitive mums, suburban swinging and brain mummification.

'Why is my hair starting to go as grey as Blake Carrington's? What is our local pub called? Are bootcut jeans still fashionable? These are just some of the questions I'll never answer now I've had my first baby.'

With her TV career hitting the skids and her daughter's nappy doing the same every two hours, her husband suddenly unemployed and the bank writing to her only in red, Mel needs to come up with a scheme, and fast: Move to a house they can't afford, of course! Welcome to an endless cabaret of sleeplessness, removal men, sinister toddler groups, husband-stealing lodgers and competitive mums.