Gucci Mamas
  • Published: 1 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9781742741987
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

Gucci Mamas

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1 Oct 2010
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2 Apr 2007
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Desperate Housewives meets Melbourne Yummy Mummies.

Desperate Housewives meets Melbourne Yummy Mummies.

Once a down-to-earth girl who loved her freckles as much as sailing with her carefree husband, one day Mim Woolcott wakes up to find she is keeping Prada, Louis Vuitton and numerous day spas in business and her life has descended into a merry-go-round of shopping, backstabbing and snobbery.

Welcome to the world of Gucci Mamas, where every day Mim has to negotiate the Carpark Mafia and the Mothers Superior as she drops her children off at the most prestigious school in Melbourne. But in between keeping up with the Joneses - or in this case the Mason-Jacksons - cracks are starting to show in Mim's perfect life as money gets tighter and her husband works ever longer hours. If her two best friends have similar problems, Mim would never know - the Gucci Mamas are far too busy picking their outfits for the races and having manicures to notice each other's troubles.

Something's got to give, and it will take a catastrophic, life-changing event to bring Mim to her senses. But will it be too late?

Wryly funny and frighteningly sharply observed, with characters who are all too real, Gucci Mamas will have you hooked from the first page.
  • Published: 1 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9781742741987
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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About the author

Cate Kendall

Cate Kendall is actually writing team Lisa Blundell and Michelle Hamer, who first met as private-school mums over a latte in mid-2005. As they sipped coffee and poked fun at the posh mums of the private school world it dawned on them that this topic could make a great book. The two mums each have four children.

As a prolific journalist, Michelle has been widely published across Australia, has been an editor at The Age, and is author of the books: It Couldn't Happen to Me, How it Feels, and Caesarean Culture.

The advertising game was Lisa's entrée into writing with several years copywriting under her belt - she also writes for The Age.

Michelle and Lisa have written four books together, Gucci Mamas, Versace Sisters, Chanel Sweethearts and Armani Angels.

portrait photo of Cate Kendall

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Praise for Gucci Mamas

Gucci Mamas is a cheeky tale of the cashed up, socially elevated label and looks-driven set of society mums. it is set in Melbourne and is a fun read.

The Herald Sun

Read it if you've got kids; read it if you never want kids - it's good for both.

The Cairns Post

Titled Gucci Mamas, it's a satirical and incisively witty take on the status-obsessed mothers who gather in gaggles around the gates of private schools throughout the country.

The Courier Mail

Gucci Mamas is a hilarious romp. It's a voyeuristic insight into the world of a fictitious Melbourne private school, where backstabbing and snobbery go hand in hand with wearing new season Prada pumps for reading mum duties.

The Sunshine Coast Daily

Humorous and sharply observant with characters who are too easy to recognise, Gucci Mamas will have you hooked from the very first page.

The Daily Advertiser

It's the juicy detail that counts and really makes this worth reading. There's Prada, passion, bitching, adultery, cosmetic surgery, people's horrible pasts coming to get them and moments of high medical drama - it's all here between the covers. Gucci Mamas is trash and treasure all at once and it doesn't get much better than that.

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