Enter the Sauvignon Sisterhood, a new set of friends brought together by a shared love of liquid therapy. Together they might just be able to convince Claire that, like a good bottle of red, life really can get better with age. Or at least there's more to it than the joy of an M&S non-iron school uniform.

Claire’s family has gone nuclear. Her precious moppets keep calling Childline when she feeds them broccoli, she’s utterly Ottolenghied out at weekends, and her darling husband is having an affair with her best friend.When Claire’s life is turned upside down by her husband’s affair with her best friend she feels like she has to start all over again. The two most important people in her life (besides her children) have now vanished and she feels she has no one. Through sheer coincidence she meets Lucy, Kate and Mary. These three women are fantastic! Whether it’s Lucy with her candid nature and ability to make a joke out of any scenario, Mary the tired young mum wanting to escape the endless drama and tantrums or Kate the mother hen of the group coping with her own loss they each brought heart and soul to the story. When fate intervenes and Claire realises she's stopped being a person in her own right, she is then in the predicament of how do adults make friends. This leads to some funny situations and some extremely strange characters. I appreciated the fact that the author didn't tie everything up at the end with a nice tidy bow, life doesn't always have a perfect happy ending. Bet the bastards didn’t tell you that wine is remarkably good at cancelling out whining though, did they?’ muttered Claire. Overall, I found the book an easy, pleasurable read, however it may have been more enjoyable if the author had made a more obvious attempt to distance this from her other books, seeing as it was supposed to be a stand-alone. Although, contrary to this, I did enjoy the crossover with Louisa, from the ‘Why Mummy…’ books, even if it was a tad too vulgar for my liking! Having previously read the Why Mummy Drinks series, I was really looking forward to a relaxing, fun and relatable read that would take me away from the real world, and once again Gill Sims delivered.

Are you having wine, Mum? You know you're not supposed to have wine every night. We did about alcohol units at school. That's quite a big glass of wine, how many units do you think are in it?' I am pleased to say that Gill Sims did not disappoint! The tears of laughter were falling by then end of the first chapter and there were many more moments after. The way Gill Sims captures not just the parenting moments but life as a female and the tangled friendships is pure perfection. The delivery was sublime and by the end I felt like one of the Saturday night Sauvignon sisterhood. Enter the Sauvignon Sisterhood, a new set of friends brought together by a shared love of liquid therapy. Together they might just be able to convince Claire that, like a good bottle of red, life really can get better with age. Or at least there’s more to it than the joy of an M&S non-iron school uniform. Through a series of days out and trying new things these women provide us with much hilarity but there were also moments of emotion where you saw the bond that they had all formed. It was also refreshing to see many different forms of motherhood, relationship status and stages of life. This wasn’t a book about divorced women coming together to hate all men, this was female solidarity at its best and showed what it meant to be a part of a true sisterhood. My thanks to HarperCollins U.K. for an eARC via NetGalley of ‘The Saturday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood’ by Gill Sims in exchange for an honest review. I combined reading with its unabridged audiobook edition.The characters within this book are primarily relatable, and there is someone for everyone. (They did remember me of a few in my social circle - but they will remain anonymous to protect the guilty!) I immediately fell in love with the characters, all of them, even the husband, especially as Claire herself started to reminisce and to think things over and well, it turned out that he was not SO bad. Of course, this what he's done was a no - go, no way, and yes, he was altogether so annoying, with his attitude and the way he had no idea about the chuldren and homework, but nevertheless, he was somehow charming, don't you think? However the female characters were absolutely winners, a brilliant group of women and it'S a pity that, actually, the Sisterhood Club members have found themselves only in the middle of the story. Bet the bastards didn't tell you that wine is remarkably good at cancelling out whining though, did they?' muttered Claire. Thank you, NetGalley and Harper Collins, for a gifted copy of this book for an honest and voluntary review. All opinions are my own.

Gill Sims didn't disappoint with her new book, oh no, it was an easy, entertaining and laugh - out - loud novel with plenty of "oh yes! That's me!" moments - just what I so love from this author and what I, actually, learnt to expect from her. Overall, I totally loved it this effervescent celebration of friendship between women. The language is a bit earthy though that’s very much Sims’ style. I’d recommend this book to all exhausted mums and dads and for everyone who wants a light hearted read to make you giggle. God I love Gill Sims. As a single mother of four children, she could be writing my life and that’s what makes her books so enjoyable for me. I’m not alone!!! “The Saturday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood” is the latest instalment in Claire’s hectically hilarious life. Fans of Gill Sims will have read her previous books, all of which were riotously funny and SO DAMN RELATABLE. The author nails the frazzled middle aged mother perfectly. Mothers everywhere will read this and relate and that’s why I love these books so much. Gill Sims writes the stuff we’re all probably thinking and feeling but won’t say out loud. Fans of this author will know her ‘Peter and Jane’ blog which is hilariously spot on and never fails to make me laugh.I own, and have read, all of the ‘Why Mummy…’ books by Gill Sims, enjoying some more than others. I originally made the mistake of thinking this was a part of the series, but it is a stand-alone story, although this was an easy mistake to make due to the glaring similarities. The author uses near-identical storylines - marriage break up, woman navigating her way through life after suddenly becoming a single mother, LOTS of alcohol being consumed… also the same language is used throughout, e.g. calling children ‘moppets’.