It’s every parents’ nightmare – the start of the school holidays – and instead of sitting in the sun, reading a book over a cold, crisp glass of Pinot Grigio, Mummy has two bored moppets to attend to. Upon arrival it goes without saying that it bypassed my precariously balanced ‘To Be Read’ pile and was promptly promoted to next in line, I couldn’t wait to get started! “I’m really looking forward to actually getting out and meeting people again I think we’ve all spent too long just talking to people behind screens, haven’t we? So it’s going to be really, really nice to be able to meet people face-to-face and have a chat and hopefully have a laugh.Amazingly my prayers were answered when I discovered there was to be a follow up to Why Mummy Drinks by Gill Sims! Having been my favourite book of the year so far, the forthcoming release of Why Mummy Swears has been highly anticipated, I was therefore ecstatic when Harper Collins offered to send me a preview copy (I may have done a little happy dance!) – Many thanks to Rosie and Harper Collins. “I did one in 2019, which was amazing,” she says, “and it’s fantastic to be able to get the chance to go and do it again, especially after the last couple of years. Tits, Gits and Little Sh*ts is Gill’s second UK tour.
“When I started blogging, so many parents in the playground started coming over and saying, ‘Oh my God that’s how I feel’, ‘My child did that today’ and I thought, ‘I’m not the only one’.” Gill, who lives in Scotland with her husband, two children and two Border terriers, realised that others could relate to what she had to say.
It’s been quite unexpected but an amazing thing to have happened.” The first book was an amazing success so they asked me to do some more and I’ve just really been very, very lucky.
“I then realised that 100,000 words for a book is very different to 700 or 800 words for a blog post, but I got there. Then I was asked if I would like to write a book along the same lines so obviously I said that would be brilliant, without really thinking it through. “But people did people shared it, people liked it, people enjoyed it – quite a lot of people started reading it and it grew from there. “I started a slightly rant-y Facebook blog about parenting called Peter and Jane and I thought no one would ever read it, apart from my friend who had told me I should start doing this. Gill reveals how she launched herself on the road to book-writing success (she previously worked for an engineering company): “I started back in 2016 as a sort of joke with a friend,” she recalls. Her new novel, The Saturday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood, will be published on May 12. The four Why Mummy titles have sold nearly a million copies across all formats to date and have been published in 18 territories worldwide.
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