The Undercover Mother

by Emma Robinson

[Emma (SCR)]

This review was originally posted on Star Crossed Reviews I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Thank you to Bookouture for my copy of this book via Netgalley. This is the first book I have read by this author but I loved the cover and thought the blurb sounded funny. I think this book may be aimed more at new mothers but as a childless 28 year old I still enjoyed it. When I do have children I know I will be hunting the internet for a blog just like Jenny's in the hope that I am doing everything that I should be.

The story follows Jenny who is currently writing a column in a weekly magazine about the single life. The thing is Jenny not only hasn't been single for 2 years she's also about 5 weeks away from having a mini me. With her impending maternity leave someone needs to cover her column while shes gone for 6 months. Jenny struck me as either extremely naive or in denial. I'm inclined to think it was more the latter. Jenny was adamant that having a baby wasn't going to change her or her lifestyle and in 6 months she would be back writing her column as if she never left. As I already said I don't have children but I have friends who do and I have 2 nephews and a niece so I have seen how a baby can change people.

While she's on maternity leave Jenny writes a blog about being a new clueless mum. She also writes about the women from her antenatal class. She gives them all code names and the are dubbed the Spice Mums. I really enjoyed the variety in mums. There was such a range that you think they would absolutely never get on and it would be more a friendship of circumstances than a friendship of your own choosing. However, I think that some genuine long term friendships were made with the most unlikely mums.

I LOVED Dan. Like literally he is the perfect husband.  He was attentive, understanding and a great father. I'll take one of those please.

I loved the blog extracts at the beginning of each chapter. These were some of the funniest moments of the book. I enjoyed Emma's writing style and I hope to read more of her books in the future.