Lucy has also had to more or less give up her own career as a musician to be able to look after her children while they are still young. If she couldn't cope with the reality of having kids, maybe she should have thought twice before having any.

Then there's the mummy lit with the funny plot lines about the clueless mummy trying to compete against the neighbourhood yummy mummies.Lucy cannot go on living like this and so – with the help of some of her closest friends – she starts to slowly but surely rebuild her life.

The struggles that Lucy faces with having a baby and a four year old who is autistic are extremely relatable to any parent who is going through the same experience. Perfect for fans of Why Mummy Drinks and The Unmumsy Mum, and TV shows such as The A Word and Atypical. Royal Mail will aim to deliver your parcel the following working day but it can sometimes take longer. I loved how the author described interacting with her autistic son and really supporting and getting into his passions with him. There was a passage that really stood out to me, where Lucy states that regardless of any diagnosis Stanley might get that it will never change how she feels about him and that to her the main word that sums him up is ‘Stanley, nothing more, nothing less.

From having to prepare for handling party games that Stan won’t always win to drawing up bullet-pointed lists for babysitters and attention grabbing violent meltdowns, Lucy faces it all on the road to acceptance and ultimately embracing Stan’s differences. As the mother of a child with additional needs I found myself agreeing with so much of what was said, and of reliving memories that I had forgotten from when they were small.