For me this book didn't quite hit the mark. Whether that's because I'm not a parent so can't relate all that well, I'm not sure. There were some funny moments which made the book more enjoyable.

An insightful view into the lives of parents.
This book had a great storyline and was a quick read.
It is wonderfully written

There were elements of this book that I loved. I found parts very funny and honest. I really enjoyed the dual POV’s between mother and father, I found both to be very interesting!

I did feel however that the book could have been a little shorter and I felt a little let down by the ending.

I found ‘Mummy Needs Help’ to be a relatable story that made me both laugh and tear up at the realities of becoming parents for the first time.

The story is structured into chapters from the points of view of both Renee and her partner, Nick, and they cover the pregnancy stage, right through their daughter’s first year. It struck a chord with me and there was some definite laugh out moments because it reminded me of what it was like truly like becoming a parent. The added extra was hearing from Nick, as it’d remind a new mum reading this that their views and feelings matter too and that men are likely to feel inferior or insignificant at times.

It also serves as a reminder to women that they are more than just ‘mum’, even when you feel like you’re losing your identity.

Overall, ‘Mummy Needs Help’ was a fun, enjoyable book.

I adored this book. It is extremely relatable and I think it will make so many parents feel better about their own lives. Brilliant characters.

I greatly enjoyed this book, thank you for giving me a preview copy. The plot was interesting and fast paced and I sympathised with the characters. This is the first novel I have read by this author but I hope it will not be the last!

A fun and witty look at motherhood. Just the laugh-out-loud mom’s in the trenches need.
Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

There are a lot of these diary style, early years books on the market at the moment and at first I wasn't sure about this one. It was slow to start and unusual in that it gave the story from the father's point of view as well as the mother's. However as the story progresses there are some very funny moments. No spoilers but I'd think twice about allowing young children in if I was the manager of a clothing shop. I found Nick's story a bit clichéd, poor daddy not enough attention etc. This isn't the best book I have read in this genre but it is far from the worst.

One to bring a smile to your face (especially in lockdown with your own kids!) - perfect for when you’re feeling frazzled, need a break and know that others get it too.

Definitely raised a smile.

If you are a mum-to-be then this is your book! It's really helpful to understand what's going to happen when you'll meet for the first time your little baby and what life means after you become a mother.

I'm a mother for a 11 months boy and for me this book was like back in time. I felt the same things as Renee when I was in hospital. I didn't care if the midwifes told me that I can't sleep with the baby on me. He too didn't like to sleep alone.

It is a hard time, but you will love every moment. Even now it seems like it's the worst nightmare. But in the end all you can see it's your baby smiling and that's all you need to keep going.

Thank you NetGalley for this eArc in exchange for an honest review.

Good story and really nice look into the first year with a baby - and the fact both POVs, mum and dad, were presented made it an even better experience. They went through ups and downs, and it got heart-breaking at a point, but I really liked the ending (won't spoil it here *grin*)
The only thing that nagged me was the first shower after delivery - made me wonder if the author has been through this as it is not as 'simple' as that to take a shower anytime in the 30-40 days post-delivery because of the bleeding that is just ever-present and even more so when the mum doesn't have any barrier keeping said blood at bay, like in the shower.

Mummy Needs Helps is relatable, funny and took me back to the early days of motherhood with my first child.

Told from the duel perspectives of Renee and Nick as they navigate the first year of parenthood filled with sleepless nights, relationship disconnection and a Facebook group that seems to be Renee's only solace in the world. I liked how each perspective was told in a month-by-month account the year following Holly's birth.

The story touches on post natal depression which really hit home for me, I connected so much with Renee in many aspects that Susan Edmunds has done a great job at depicting the obstacles that new parents face and I think a lot of mothers reading this will connect with Renee.

This book was a lighthearted look at early parenthood written in a very relatable and realistic way, it highlights the fact that yes mummy needs help, but also so do the dads - especially when the mother is breastfeeding and co-sleeping it can leave the father feeling a little helpless - there were times I wanted to shake up Nick - but he was a typical guy.

I really enjoyed this book and give it 5 stars

In this book, Rosie and Nick are new parents, unmarried but living together as a gym owner Nick seems to care more about work and escaping his responsibility as well as succumbing to an attraction towards his new young colleague.



Meanwhile left literally holding the baby, dealing with her flitting about mum and post natal depression,



Rosie looks set to sink unless she gets help and support from her online blogger friends for her and Holly to mix and meet with.



This book shows what a struggle new mum's can go through emotion wise but also the way men can feel pushed out and useless after their baby's birth too. It was a raw emotional read showing the toll a baby can have on a couple's relationship.



Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

Somewhere between agreeing to read this book and actually settling down to read it, the world as we know it changed almost beyond recognition for an indeterminable length of time. Between the anxiety, the potty training (because for some reason I thought it was a wonderful idea to train my two year old daughter amidst a nerve-frying lockdown) and the added burden of homeschooling, I found myself somewhat reluctant to pick this up when it reached the top of my TBR. Added to the almost universal loss in book blogger mojo; a book about how tough it is to parent little people didn’t seem to be the ideal escape at a time when experiencing my own parenting challenges.

I dove in regardless, and I have to say I really enjoyed it, and as a complete bonus, it seems to have rekindled my focus on reading – hooray!

Mummy Needs Help focuses on the relationship of Renee and Nick in the year following the birth of their daughter, Holly. There was so much of Renee’s character I could relate to, and the author has done a brilliant job of incorporating the emotions and unique aspects of new motherhood that fade over time, and so I found myself nodding along and reliving long forgotten memories of my own.

I am a huge advocate of books and stories which tell the truth about motherhood, and I felt that Susan Edmunds has done an outstanding job here at delivering a balance between truth and comedy. The humour is situational and relatable, but it’s not overdone in the slightest. It delivers relief without limiting the impact of Renee’s experience.

Another aspect I was unsure of in the beginning was the dual narrative which focuses equally on Nick’s experience as a new father. I’ve read so many books which focus wholly on the woman’s point of view, and I admit that I mentally eye rolled at the idea that entire chapters of this book would be given over to the male point of view. I’ve always seen early motherhood as a very female oriented challenge, but I have to say that, once again, a pitch perfect balance was delivered by the author and the two narratives worked seamlessly together. Possibly for the first time, it had me considering things from the father’s point of view, and it even started conversations with my husband as to how he felt during that time in our lives.

Alongside Renee and Nick are a host of great secondary characters, but I have to say the most amusing and yet true to life characters are the mothers from Renee’s online chat forum. Invisible but for their responses in the forum, I found myself chuckling to myself at these. As a past member of such chat forums (now thankfully fully weaned off them) I recognised every single response as being entirely possible and accurate!

Mummy Needs Help is a complete joy to read. Filled with light, darkness and everything in between, it is a story of parenthood and the adjustments needed for even the strongest of relationships to survive.

A sincere thank you to the publisher, author and Netgalley for providing me with an ebook copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

This is not my usual genre, I’m more into crime/thriller books and even psychological thrillers too so I am extremely pleased and grateful to them for opening up my mind to something totally different.

I enjoyed this very much. 4 stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Who doesn’t need some light-hearted, uplifting and hilarious escapism at the moment? If you are looking for a book that is hysterically funny, wonderfully engaging and absolutely fabulous from start to finish, then look no further than Susan Edmunds’ riotous new novel Mummy Needs Help.

Motherhood is bloody hard work as Renee is discovering every day as she gets to grips with her child while juggling the demands of marriage and parenting. Having a baby who is completely and utterly dependant on you is no picnic and it is certainly far removed from the rose-tinted fantasy which she had about motherhood prior to giving birth. Renee thanks her lucky stars for Facebook and the Internet which keeps her sane and connected to like-minded people capable of forming an entire sentence without needing their nappy changed. Her new online friends assure Renee that even though bub might not sleep more than five minutes now, there will come a time where she will sleep through the night and will have her mother worrying about piercings, parties and boyfriends.

Renee’s husband Nick cannot help but feel rather useless at the moment. While Renee seems to have taken to parenthood like a duck to water, Nick is struggling. He feels out of his depth and unable to get even the most simple thing right when it comes to their baby. Renee has her Facebook group to confide in which is full of women willing to offer helpful advice and a kind word of reassurance when needed – while Nick has nobody except for his work. The more weeks that go by, the more Nick feels like work is the refuge which he is desperate for – and the further apart he grows from Renee.

As the baby begins to take their first tentative steps, Renee’s attentions turn to her husband and their marriage. It has been months since her and Nick have had a conversation not revolving around parenthood. As the two seem to be growing more and more distant, will parenthood result in the two of them being torn apart? Or can they find a way to rekindle the spark and save their marriage?

Susan Edmunds is a brilliantly funny writer who captures the joys and frustrations of motherhood with heart, style and aplomb. Mummy Needs Help is a book mothers everywhere will relate to, laugh with and nod their heads with recognition at as Renee goes through challenges, problems and issues so many of us have faced. A book that is charming, exquisitely relatable and so wonderfully written you will want to tell all your friends about, Mummy Needs Help is just the thing to lift our spirits and make us laugh our heads off.

Mummy Needs Help is a sometimes funny and sometimes sad totally relatable story of the first year of being a parent. Any new Mum will have dealt with or felt like at least some of the things that Renee experiences in the book.
It is written from the point of view of Renee and her partner Nick alternately from the pregnancy stages right through to their Daughter's first birthday with a whole host of trials and tribulations that new parents could expect to face.
I thought that having Nick's perspective in there was a great touch as we often get so bogged down in how we feel in those difficult moments that we forget how others are feeling. Especially those moments that wouldn't really stand out to us Mums but where the Dads feel pretty insignificant and helpless, such as breastfeeding and co-sleeping and we bond so much with them we become like a little duo against the world.
There were some literal laugh out loud moments that had me chuckling away and nodding in agreement (that first post birth wee! Ouch!) and moments where I could totally understand how sad Renee felt, such as when she said it felt that everything that defined her as a person was slipping away and she was just a Mum.
There is some content around post-natal depression but as this book is a more lighthearted look at new parent issues the mental health rep is quite low level, minimalised and not really explored so people should be aware of this might make them feel before going in to the book.
Overall, Mummy Needs Help was a fun, enjoyable book and I will definitely be reading more of this authors books.

an unmissable novel about the hardships and hysterics of parenthood, perfect for fans of #GillSims and #SuzyKQuinn! Out today 🎉

Can you go mad from sleep deprivation? Will my mother ever leave? Will the baby sleep through the night before she turns twenty-one?
Renee is struggling to get to grips with having a totally dependent new-born. Luckily for her there is a Facebook group of new mums who welcome her with open arms and assurances that she might sleep again … one day.

Whilst Renee finds a safe space for questions and confessions, all hubby Nick can see is how easily she seems to be adapting to parenthood: a world in which he still feels adrift. Work is beginning to be the place he feels most at home.

As her daughter reaches the age where she can finally have a solo shower, Renee realises it’s been months since she’s had a baby-free discussion with Nick, let alone a date night. The question remains: will their marriage survive the storm?

This story follows Renee and Nick. From pregnancy up until the first birthday of their daughter. The narrative is told from both perspectives alternatively. I loved this concept as we get to see how parenthood affects both sides of the relationship.

As a mother myself I could relate to mostly everything that Renee and Nick were experiencing. I remember the bombardment of advice on how to raise a baby. It comes from all directions, friends, family. Even people you hardly know that pass you on the street. And, still you get in your phone and Google for yet more advice.

One key factor that resounded highly was when Renee said that she felt that everything that had defined who she was felt like it was slipping away. I think this is a sentiment that most mother's feel after having a baby, and it was nice to read about someone else going through these emotions.

It was good to have an insight into the father's perspective on how things affected him. As we don't often get to see from the male perspective. Saying this there was some decisions and actions that Nick made that really wound me up. And, I just couldn't take to him because of this. But, when he was being good it did make me appreciate what my partner might have been going through at the time.

Mummy Needs Help is an insightful view into the lives of first time parents. A great story for those who have gone through it to look back and recall memories. And, also a good book for mums to be to get a taster of what might be on offer. Just remember not every man will make Nick's choices 👍🏼🤣

This is a book that I devoured in just under 24 hours I could not put it down. It touches on Post Natal Depression and I think it’s a must read book not just for mother’s of new-borns but for everyone.