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Don’t Try This At Home
- Author: Katie Pearson
- Category: Fiction
- Publisher: Flame(UK)
- Pub date: 18 August 2003
- Length: 356 pages
About Don’t Try This At Home
‘Funny and heartwarming’
— HEAT
‘Hilarious and moving’
— RED
‘Poignant, funny, life-enhancing – a triumph’
— Sue Limb
Katie Pearson’s tender and funny debut novel explores the possibilities of life after a serious illness. On the surface Dot has the perfect life. She is happily married with two small children and a very successful career as a documentary film producer but for Dot there is a darker side to Having It All: she is still recovering from the physical and emotional effects of breast cancer.
When Dot decides to give up work in order to spend more time at home she is extremely surprised to discover that no one thinks she’s made the right decision, least of all her over-worked husband, her breezy mother, her two best friends Beth and Jay, and her erstwhile boss Nikki Sober – not forgetting her two adorable but fractious children.
About the Author
Katie Pearson worked in television as a producer and director of documentaries. Her first novel, DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME, was published in the UK by Hodder Headline in 2003, generating wide coverage in national newspapers, on television and on radio.