Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy

For Lucy Sweeney, motherhood isn''t all astanga yoga and Cath Kidston prints. It''s been years since the dirty laundry pile was less than a metre high, months since Lucy remembered to have sex with her husband, and a week since she last did the school run wearing pyjamas.

Motherhood, it seems, has more pitfalls than she might have expected. Caught between perfectionist Yummy Mummy No 1 and hyperco...