What an absolute treat! I stayed up to the early hours to finish it and felt rather bereft when I had. I imagine that, like me, readers will be nodding at every turn and screaming at the page "Yes, that's just what it's like. I'm not alone - someone else is out there!" ... I love it.

Fantastically funny; a sanity saver with a lovely laugh on every page. I plan to give it to every mum I know.

Laura Kemp’s debut is a very funny novel, which I’m sure will entertain and delight many mums!

My children are getting the most basic, value range, own brand level of care at the moment. Why? Because I’m reading a brilliant new book – Mum’s Like Us – by Laura Kemp, and it’s getting most of my attention. I can honestly say it is an absolute must read for any mother who has ever hidden the Mister Maker magazine down the sofa to avoid doing crafts. Warm and witty, it’s like she’s peered inside my head and describes exactly how it feels to be a mum. Truthfully.

Staggeringly true and absolutely hilarious! … I can't think of one person I know who would read this book and not be in stitches before the end of the first chapter. With a million laughs a minute, and the fact that I recognised myself so many times in this book being quite a scary realisation, this is just a fabulously funny read that I think every mother should have. Laura sounds like a person that I'd love to spend an evening with over a glass of wine or two or maybe even a bottle! A lady with a sense of humour such as hers is sure to have an award-winning super novel on her hands. Very hard to believe it is her first novel, she is a complete natural and I hope there are many more of her books out in the not too distant future. It is published in paperback on 28th February so is a perfect Mother's Day pressie. It is guaranteed to make every Mom laugh and realise that they are not the only ones! I can think of loads of people I need to buy this book for!

Captures and celebrates the hangover of youth

It was brilliant

Gripping

A great thriller and a stirring love story

A gripping narrative and a compelling lead character... This is an absorbing and accomplished novel

A very human Cold War thriller

Rooney is a novelist at home with life’s ambiguities, her plotting pleasingly intricate, her narrative richly textured

A captivating read

An exciting and intelligent novel... Rooney's re-creation of the politics of the day is brilliant

Particulary acute on the muddle of emotion, reason and morality that festers around betrayal...compelling, impressively detailed story, with thrillerish overtones...

A wonderfully plotted spy drama full of intrigue and suspense… A fantastic read

Extremely readable

A brilliant spy novel, with an unlikely culprit and a deft, involving plot... Tense, beautifully pitched and very moving

[A] polished, intricate novel… rich in moral ambiguity

This powerfully-written spy thriller is compulsive reading

A gripping spy novel with an unlikely culprit and a thoroughly researched basis in fact... Perfect for fans of William Boyd's Restless