How Hard Can It Be?

Country Life

‘Poignant and smart takes on the pressures affecting working mothers … laugh out loud funny’

Women’s Agenda

‘[Peason writes] with acid and a daunting determination to tell it like it is’

New Zealand Herald

Dedication (#ulink_10d9c04a-9318-52ae-9a2a-f896e4969ed9)

For Awen and Evie,

my mother and my daughter

Epigraph (#ulink_10d9c04a-9318-52ae-9a2a-f896e4969ed9)

Conceal me what I am, and by my aid

For such disguise as haply shall become

The form of my intent.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Nobody tells you about the balding pudenda.

Whoopi Goldberg

Contents

Cover (#ucf7a6c42-569f-5421-9638-87e69fd92f5f)

Title Page (#u343c1de5-c45d-5a9e-9c7b-c3d8fa6d7312)

Copyright (#uc7a39da7-2baa-5d5c-8df0-6f150aa4e665)

Praise (#u3d16ba53-2809-5bd4-b7e2-a8b269051e95)

Dedication (#ue88133f8-40e2-52b5-b12b-fd629d2362ef)

Epigraph (#uffe8321d-3a41-5ce4-ab24-ecda437ac99a)

Prologue: Countdown to Invisibility: T minus six months and two days (#ua92c7fbc-75ec-5e35-bc0e-0593a1def1c9)

1. Bats in the Belfie (#u02b281bc-f673-532e-bdbd-8b0cc5288ef1)

2. The Has-been (#uea2ad9a5-6f2c-502e-a3d8-731f32fba2c8)

3. The Bottom Line (#ub04d491a-faaa-5619-89c8-090984fe0d24)

4. Ghosts (#ufc34d1e1-e3c4-56ae-9029-02db33be0351)

5. Five More Minutes (#ue5ad5165-e9a1-5073-aba9-d0210178d368)

6. Of Mice and Menopause (#litres_trial_promo)

7. Back to the Future (#litres_trial_promo)

8. Old and New (#litres_trial_promo)

9. Genuine Fake (#litres_trial_promo)

10. Rebirth of a Saleswoman (#litres_trial_promo)

11. Twelfth Night (or What You Won’t) (#litres_trial_promo)

12. Catch-32 (#litres_trial_promo)

13. Those Stubborn Areas (#litres_trial_promo)

14. The College Reunion (#litres_trial_promo)

15. Calamity Girl (#litres_trial_promo)

16. Help! (#litres_trial_promo)

17. The Rock Widow (#litres_trial_promo)

18. The Office Party (#litres_trial_promo)

19. Coitus Interruptus (#litres_trial_promo)

20. Merry Christmas (#litres_trial_promo)

21. The Mere Idea of You (#litres_trial_promo)

22. Madonna and Mum (#litres_trial_promo)

23. Never Can Say Goodbye (#litres_trial_promo)

24. For Whom the Belfie Tolls (#litres_trial_promo)

25. Cut to the Quick (#litres_trial_promo)

26. Redemption (#litres_trial_promo)

27. Guilty Secret (#litres_trial_promo)