The Saturday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood

By: Gill Sims

Narrated by: Sophie Aldred

It’s time for a w(h)ine

“God, she’s funny” – Jilly Cooper

‘Oh, for f*ck’s sake’ muttered Claire under her breath, as she opened the fridge to see what she could find for a no effort dinner. The children continued to fight behind her. They regarded any form of fish not encased in breadcrumbs as toxic, and were resistant enough to the delicious homemade fishfingers Claire had made for them, insisting they much preferred Captain Birdseye’s version. White wine was starting to look like quite an appealing dinner actually. Maybe just a small glass.

‘Are you having wine, Mum? You know you’re not supposed to have wine every night. We did about alcohol units at school. That’s quite a big glass of wine, how many units do you think are in it?’

’Bet the bastards didn’t tell you that wine is remarkably good at cancelling out whining though, did they?’ muttered Claire.

Claire’s family has gone nuclear. Her precious moppets keep calling Childline when she feeds them broccoli, she’s utterly Ottolenghied out at weekends, and her darling husband is having an affair with her best friend.

The question isn’t whether she needs a glass of wine, but is there one big enough?

Enter the Sauvignon Sisterhood, a new set of friends brought together by a shared love of liquid therapy. Together they might just be able to convince Claire that, like a good bottle of red, life really can get better with age. Or at least there’s more to it than the joy of an M&S non-iron school uniform.

©2022 Gill Sims (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers

Critic reviews

Praise for Gill Sims

“God, she’s funny” – Jilly Cooper

“Honest and very funny – it’s a tale that mums will identify with” – The Sun

“Sims’s latest offering is a hilarious follow-up to her bestselling debut… you’d be forgiven for thinking the blogger behind Peter and Jane couldn’t pull it off twice – but she has” – The Sunday Post

“Witty, relevant and bitingly sarcastic… Gill Sims nails the aspects of modern family life that drive us crazy – but which also make us who we are” – Sunday Express Magazine

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Brilliant entertainment

Loved this book for making me laugh whilst felled by Covid the story has so many parallels with life after divorce

Laugh Out Loud in an aircraft full of people

When you have an hearing aid and listening to funny audiobooks people don't understand the reason you just burst out laughing. The Saterday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood made me guilty of looking completely nuts on an aircraft. Very good entertainment with lots if wisdom and life lessons.

Really wanted to love it but ....

I normally love her books...... especially the "why mummy range....". But this one was just not as good. It was funny in places but too long winded and boring at times.
Disappointing.

I really tried to like it, but I did NOT!

I’ve looked forward to this book for a long time. I’ve loved most of her previous books, but this one was terrible from the beginning. The obvious affair, the hysterical overreaction to it, the children who treat her horribly, an underdeveloped best friendship, and the narrator making all male characters (including her own child) sound pompous and dumb. Maybe the final straw was when she said that the betrayal by her best friend was far worse than the betrayal by her spouse?!? She was really stretching for feminism there and it felt fake. I wanted to stop in the first 3 chapters, but kept thinking it would get better. I was wrong.