Shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction’Utterly, utterly perfect and brilliant – I think it is, simply, a new classic, and the book every woman will be able to trust to make her happy when she picks it up’ – Caitlin Moran’Utterly wonderful … full of love. Enormously uplifting, funny and witty and wry’ – Marian Keyes’A glorious, outrageously funny retelling of E.M. Delafield’s Diary of a Provincial Lady. At once, a celebration of the joy of family life and a cry of anguish at the utter hell of it. Laugh out loud, compulsive reading’ – Nina StibbeMeet Liz: all she wants is some peace and quiet so she can read a book with her cat Henry, love of her life, by her side. But trampling all over this dream is a group of wild things also known as Liz’s family. Namely:Richard – a man, a husband, no serious rival to Henry. Thomas – their sensitive seven year old son, for whom life is a bed of pain already. Evie – five y