Blurb:

From  TV’s award-winning comedy mum and the writer of Hullraisers, Lucy Beaumont, comes her hilarious debut on the trials and tribulations of motherhood.

Known for her sharp, witty and surreal view on everyday life, Lucy shares the unpredictable craziness of being a mum in this brilliant and laugh-out-loud ‘mumoir’. Mums everywhere will recognise the madness of it all. Like when Lucy was hospitalised during her third trimester with chest pains but it turned out to be a burrito. Or when she was so tired at the park she forgot her own child’s name.

Heart-warming and laugh-out-loud funny, Drinking Custard also captures Lucy’s marriage to comedian Jon Richardson, as they navigate Lucy’s raging pregnancy hormones and balk at pram prices together.

Get ready to make room on mum’s bookshelf for Drinking Custard to sit alongside other mum classics such as Why Mummy Drinks, Hurrah For Gin! and The Unmumsy Mum.

Review:

To my absolute shame, it’s only recently that I’ve come across Lucy Beaumont as a comedian in her own right, rather than as the (ex) wife of Jon Richardson, but it’s clear from Drinking Custard: Diary Of A Confused Mum that she is just as talented herself. She does come across as a little ditzy, but her story is told in a really clever and relatable way that made me laugh the whole way through.

Lucy Beaumont’s voice comes across really clearly in this memoir, even more so in the audiobook, which she narrates herself. Drinking Custard: Diary Of A Confused Mum is the story of her journey into parenthood. It’s split into short sections so it’s really easy to read. I don’t have any children myself, but I imagine it’s really reassuring to those who do, and live on very little sleep and have insecurities about how they are raising their children. Although I’m not a parent, I still enjoyed the anecdotes and the humour, particularly those about growing up in the north. There is still so much common ground I could find with her, and I loved her down to earth approach to her story. The audiobook in particular felt like I was talking to a friend.

Throughout the book, there are footnotes added by Jon Richardson and this adds an extra element of humour to the text, which works particularly well if you are also familiar with his work. 

I have tickets to see Lucy Beaumont later this year, and after reading Drinking Custard: Diary Of A Confused Mum, I am very excited!

Drinking Custard: Diary Of A Confused Mum is available from Amazon.