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    The School Gate Survival Guide

    Written by Kerry Fisher

    Narrated by Sally Orrock

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    A hilarious, straight-talking read for fans of Fiona Neill and Gill Hornby’s ‘The Hive’.

    Maia is a cleaner for ladies who lunch. With mops and buckets in tow, she spends her days dashing from house to house cleaning up after them, as they rush from one exhausting Pilates class to the next.

    But an unusual inheritance catapults her and her children into the very exclusive world of Stirling Hall School – a place where no child can survive without organic apricots and no woman goes a week without a manicure.

    As Maia and her children, Bronte and Harley, try to settle into their new life, Maia is inadvertently drawn to the one man who can help her family fit in. But is his interest in her purely professional? And will it win her any favours at the school gate?

    A hilarious, straight-talking read for anyone who's ever despaired at the politics of the school run.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateSep 11, 2014
    ISBN9780007595617
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    The School Gate Survival Guide
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    Kerry Fisher

    Kerry was brought up in Peterborough. She now lives in Surrey with a very tolerant husband and two children. After landing her dream job working on women’s magazines, she discovered that she hated writing about real people in case their families got upset. The University of California Writers’ Program helped her move from fact into fiction. The School Gate Survival Guide is her first novel.

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    • 4/5
      Loved this book!!! Definitely a fun read. I am a huge fan of Kerry Fisher's books and this one did not disappoint.Maia fell in love with the rebellious boy with a motorbike and her dreams of college fell to the wayside. Twenty years and two kids later, Maia is a cleaner and Colin has no ambition for finding a job. They live in council housing while dodging calls from bill collectors. A professor Maia cleaned for died and left her money. The only stipulation is the money is to be used for Maia's children to go to a private school and nothing else. Maia and her children end up having problems adjusting to the new school. Clover and Mr. Peters help Maia when she needs it the most. Maia ends up learning secrets her mother kept from her. I loved the story and the characters. Maybe not Sandy and Colin. One of the saddest and scariest parts is when Bronte tells the story of what happened to her when she skipped school. That alone alone, should have made Maia realize her children belong in the private school. At points I wanted to scream at Maia and make her realize what a loser Colin was and that he wouldn't change. I definitively recommend this book and look forward to reading more by the author. Thanks to NetGalley, Bookouture and the author, Kerry Fisher, for a free electronic ARC of this novel.