This grown up version of the childhood classic, Where the Wild Things Are, explores the idea that mums can get wild, too. Or more accurately, that mums should get wild, too.
Sulking in her bubble bath, Mum is transported to a paradise full of promise. She sails to the place where the Wild Mums are - who may or may not drink too much - and when she is able to balance a drink on her head while dancing, they name her Queen of the Wild Mums and party 'til dawn.
Then Mum starts feeling a bit tired and emotional and, despite the other mums' best efforts to keep her there, decides it's time to go back to her family.
This is a bit of fun and will resonate with more than one mum, I'm sure.
Win a copy
The ODT has five copies of Where the Wild Mums Are by Katie Blackburn and Sholto Walker (RRP $24.99) to give away courtesy of Faber & Faber and Allen & Unwin.
For your chance to win a copy, email helen.speirs@odt.co.nz with your name and address in the body of the email and ''Wild Mums book competition'' in the subject line by 5pm on Tuesday, June 9.
LAST WEEK'S WINNERS
Winners of A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson, courtesy of Penguin Random House, were: Jeanette McQuillan and Yvonne Coughlan, both of Dunedin, Christine Samson and Trudi McDonald, both of Mosgiel, and May Ludemann, of Oamaru.
