MUMMING: A Comedy Memoir by Victoria Vanstone

A hilarious and painfully relatable memoir about a mum who sets out to revolutionise herself and her parenting—one failed experiment at a time.

Victoria Vanstone thought she’d be the kind of mum who spent her days ironing names onto school shirts and knew the best chocolate-chip cookie recipe off by heart.

But as the years ticked by, she got the feeling that woman wasn’t going to show up.

Instead, she’s the kind of mum who shouts a lot and throws plastic cups at walls.

So Victoria decides to become the mum she’s always wanted to be. She embarks on a year of parental development—enrolling in a parenting course, implementing an exercise regime, awkwardly trying to make friends as an adult, and even taking a holiday away from her family to reset the dials.

What follows is a year of trying, failing, and trying again.

But as Victoria stumbles from one misadventure to the next, she begins to realise that getting things wrong is actually where the fun begins.

Come for the laughs, stay for the reassurance—Mumming is a heartwarming celebration of the messy, wonderful, imperfect reality of raising kids (and yourself).