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Frazzled mum Ellen is determined that this is the year she will attain the perfect work-life balance. Stars Gabriel Quigley.
Ellen is a stressed-out working-mum who would love her children to eat nutritious snacks and do piano practice whilst adoring their chic mother.
She’s got high hopes of having a perfect life, but the gulf between aspiration and reality is an ever-widening chasm of chaos.
But this is the year that everything will change…for sure.
Gill Sims’ funny, frank and feisty novel, first published in 2017.
Dramatised in five parts by Christine Entwisle
Ellen … Gabriel Quigley
Simon … Stuart McQuarrie
Kathy … Sally Reid
Director: Kirsty Williams
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in June 2019.
Last on
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02:15
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