Journal Entry 1 by jennymidget from Bellbowrie, Queensland Australia on Sunday, October 16, 2011

Recently relocated to the Upper East Side from San Francisco after her husband, Josh, took a lucrative job, Hannah Allen is thrown into the mommy snake pit by her domineering mother-in-law, Lila Allen Dillingham, who introduces Hannah to a cabal of neighborhood moms led by the "drop dead gorgissima" Bee Elliott. Hannah, a black-jeans-and-Converse art history grad and mother of too-cute two-year-old Violet, struggles to please Lila and keep up with Bee's hypercompetitive crew of "Kelly-bag-toting, Chanel-suit-wearing, Bugaboo-pushing sharks" who fret over their children's head circumferences and admissions into pre-preschools with three-year waiting lists. There's no shortage of name-dropping and light humor as Hannah struggles to win a co-op board's approval, keep her marriage afloat and get Violet into Carnegie Nursery School. 

Journal Entry 2 by jennymidget at Bellbowrie, Queensland Australia on Sunday, October 16, 2011

I enjoyed this immensely - heaps of fun, and above all, a good lesson for new mummies (like myself) about what NOT to do!

Off to Japan via BookMooch.com.