A satire about competitive, over-protective parents driving their children to tutors, to ballet, to insanity ... lice and David are worried parents. Are their children falling behind with their schoolwork, their music lessons and the number of sleepover invitations received this month? Or are all these extra lessons causing them to miss out on physical exercise? Maybe they could find a maths tutor who d be prepared to swim alongside them and explain binary numbers while the children practiced their breast-stroke? This ...
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A satire about competitive, over-protective parents driving their children to tutors, to ballet, to insanity ... lice and David are worried parents. Are their children falling behind with their schoolwork, their music lessons and the number of sleepover invitations received this month? Or are all these extra lessons causing them to miss out on physical exercise? Maybe they could find a maths tutor who d be prepared to swim alongside them and explain binary numbers while the children practiced their breast-stroke? This permanent sense of crisis is coming to a climax as their eldest child looks set to fail her entrance exam for the hallowed school on which they have pinned all their hopes. Many mothers can t help wanting to do everything for their children, but Alice takes this controlling maternal obsession one step further. She takes the test in place of her daughter. With a baseball cap pulled low over her face, she shuffles into a hall of a two hundred kids and faces her first examination for twenty years. But it is only once she puts herself in the place of one her children that she starts to realise the sort of exhausting pressures that her kids have been under
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Near fine in Near fine jacket. Near fine condition. Doubleday, 2005. First edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick on the cover) with Dj(some nicks, scratches and crease on the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages as new with a very small mark on the outer edges, small nick on the edges of the pages. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the Dj cover.319pp including Author's note. Price un-clipped. Heavy book.
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