#BlogTour: Those Other Woman by Nicola Moriarty @NikkiM3 @MichaelJBooks @Deaco89

Book Blurb:

Poppy never thought she wanted to be a mother – and then her husband got her best friend pregnant.

Now everywhere she goes, mothers are reminding her of his betrayal . . .

So Poppy creates an innocent Facebook group to vent just a little about ‘smug mummies’.

Except those ‘other women’ are already heartily sick of being judged by non-mums and stay-at-home mums alike. Two can play at Poppy’s game.

Which is when the anger spills into the real world.

Cafés become battlegrounds, playgrounds become warzones and offices have never been so divided between the have children and have lives . . .

A rivalry that was once harmless fun is suddenly spiralling out of Poppy’s control.

She started this – but can she end it?

From the author of the eBook sensation The Fifth Letter comes another darkly comic, controversial and compulsive read that you’re going to want to talk about with everyone you know.

Those Other Women is available in ebook now for the bargain price of 99p and will be published in paperback on the 3rd May 2018.  You can purchase or pre-order a copy of both here.

My Review:

I loved Nicola’s first book, The Fifth Letter, so I was very excited to be offered the chance to read an early copy of the book.

Nicola is fantastic at writing stories about realistic situations that could actually happen.  As a mother myself I have heard mainly the mother’s side of the story so it was fascinating to go behind the scenes and hear the other side of the argument.  I think I now understand a little more about the frustrations women without children must feel and the prejudices they face on a daily basis.  I do hope however that things in my home town don’t errupt quite the way they do in the book.

Some of the situations described in the book are so spot on and are things that I have experienced in my time as a mum too.  For example I often try to hide from my kids in the toilet just to get a few minutes peace!  I found myself laughing out loud at some of the descriptions and situations in the book. Nicola has definitely observed or experienced some of these things as they are just too realistic!

I didn’t really warm to any of the woman in the book as the story meant it was quite hard to.  Out of all the characters I did have a bit of a soft spot for Poppy as I did feel sorry for her when everything starts going wrong and the safety net she has built for herself suddenly unravels.  She did seem quite bitchy and full of herself at times though which made it hard for me to like her completely.

For me this was a slow moving book but that was half of the fun of it as it allows the reader time to get to understand the situation and the women more so you are more involved in the story and more shocked about the events that happen.  The pace gradually picks up towards the end of the book and I was definitely intrigued until the last page.

This is Nicola Moriarty’s second book and the second one I have read.  I can’t wait to read more from her as her stories are always original and relatable ones.

Huge thanks to Sam Deacon from Michael St Joseph publishers for my copy of this book and for inviting me onto the blog tour.

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