All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Harman, Sarah

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"The missing boy is 10-year-old Alfie Risby, and to be perfectly honest with you, he's a little shit."

Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her girl band career, she has only one reason to get out of bed each day: her ten-year-old son Dylan. But then Alfie Risby, her son's bully and the heir to a vast frozen food empire, mysteriously vanishes during a class trip, and Dylan becomes the prime suspect. Florence, for once, is faced with a task she can't quit: She's got to find Alfie and clear her son's name, or risk losing Dylan forever.

The only problem? Florence has no useful skills, let alone investigative ones, and all the other school moms hate her. Oh, and Florence has a reason to suspect Dylan might not be as innocent as she'd like to believe...

Hilarious and twisted, propulsive and furious, All the Other Mothers Hate Me is the must-read book of 2025.

Author: Sarah Harman
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 03/11/2025
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.45w x 1.27d
ISBN: 9780593851463

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2024 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 12/16/2024
Booklist 02/01/2025 pg. 31
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2025

About the Author
Sarah Harman is an American living in London. She worked most recently as a foreign correspondent for NBC News, reporting on-air for Today, Nightly News, and MSNBC. She's a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Her debut novel All the Other Mothers Hate Me won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize in 2023.