Sydney Book Launch - Better Read Than Dead in Newtown.
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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 would spend her days ironing names onto school shirts and who knew the best chocolate-chip cookie recipe off by heart. But as the years have ticked by, she’s got the feeling that woman isn’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 to make friends as an adult, and 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.
Our event space is wheelchair-accessible via a star lift. If you have any other accessibility questions, please contact events@betterread.com.au
Victoria Vanstone is the host of Sober Awkward, a popular comedy podcast. Victoria became a renowned over-sharer on her blog drunkmummysobermummy.com. Originally from Reading in the UK, Victoria now lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland with her brood of uncontrollable children, a rather confused dog and a very patient husband. Sober Awkward won the best wellness podcast at the 2023 Australian Podcast Awards.
Hamish Adams-Cairns hails from South London but legged it out of there for the sunny skies of Queensland. He spent years travelling, drinking, sky diving, sand dune boarding, paragliding and marathon running (yup all before the age of 21!). Hamish is now a husband, dad and big lover of football, cricket, comic films, stand-up and a large range of music. After committing to a year of sobriety, he shares the ups and downs of living without the booze as the cohost of podcast Sober Awkward.