The Yummy Mummy

Six months after the birth of her daughter, Evie, thirty something Amy Crane finds her life is no longer her own. She's traded a high-pressure job in PR for something far more difficult - new motherhood. Even though she adores everything about her daughter - from her tiny blond head to that ambrosial baby smell - Amy doesn't exactly adore herself. Feeling invisible, overweight, and about as attractive as a barnyard animal, she can't relate to the smug women in her new mothers group who seem to embrace the lifestyle of nappies and organic baby food. Even worse, she suspects that Evie's father, Joe - the man she's living with but not married to is having an affair.

Then Amy meets Alice, who seems to have this mommy thing down: She's single-girl slender, for one thing, with groomed eyebrows, a smooth forehead, and killer clothes. Plus, she has a sex life. In short, she's a Yummy Mummy, one of a new breed of Pilates-practicing, Blahniks-wearing, salon-coiffed moms who manage to make motherhood look positively sexy. Under Alice's tutelage, Amy attempts to rebuild her body, wardrobe, and self-esteem, and discovers that she's got some yumminess of her own; but a new look may not be the answer to her problems as her relationship with Joe starts to unravel.

POLLY WILLIAMS is a journalist who writes for In Style, Marie Claire, and The Sunday Times, as well as other publications. She lives in London with her husband and son.

ROSALYN LANDOR's acting career spans 30 years with TV film and theater appearances in the UK and US. She has appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Matlock, O'Hara and the UK television series Rumpole of the Bailey. Her voice credits include the film Teacher's Pet, the television series Taz-Mania and Disney's House of Mouse series as the voice of "The Blue Fairy". Rosalyn also read Rosie Dunne by Cecilia Ahern for Hyperion Audiobooks.