“When I started blogging, so many parents in the playground started coming over and saying, ‘Oh my God that’s how I feel’, ‘My child did that today’ and I thought, ‘I’m not the only one’.” Gill, who lives in Scotland with her husband, two children and two Border terriers, realised that others could relate to what she had to say. It’s been quite unexpected but an amazing thing to have happened.” The first book was an amazing success so they asked me to do some more and I’ve just really been very, very lucky. “I then realised that 100,000 words for a book is very different to 700 or 800 words for a blog post, but I got there. Then I was asked if I would like to write a book along the same lines so obviously I said that would be brilliant, without really thinking it through. “But people did people shared it, people liked it, people enjoyed it – quite a lot of people started reading it and it grew from there. “I started a slightly rant-y Facebook blog about parenting called Peter and Jane and I thought no one would ever read it, apart from my friend who had told me I should start doing this. Gill reveals how she launched herself on the road to book-writing success (she previously worked for an engineering company): “I started back in 2016 as a sort of joke with a friend,” she recalls. Her new novel, The Saturday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood, will be published on May 12. The four Why Mummy titles have sold nearly a million copies across all formats to date and have been published in 18 territories worldwide.
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