The Single Mum’s Wish List

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What to expect

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Single Mum's Wish List written by Charlene Allcott, read by Jennifer Saayeng.

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'One of the freshest, funniest, most exciting new voices I’ve read for a long time' JANE FALLON

'Fresh and funny and REAL ... Martha really spoke to me. She will steal everyone's heart!' VERONICA HENRY

'Beautifully written and emotionally intelligent. I rooted for Martha from the start.' Daily Mail


Meet Martha Ross. She dreams of being a singer, but she’s been working in a call centre for far too long. She’s separating from her husband, the father of her son. And she’s moving back home to her parents’ as a single mum, toddler in tow.

Life has thrown her a few lemons . . . but Martha intends to make a gin and tonic. It’s time to become the woman she’s always wanted to be. And at least her mum’s on hand to provide childcare – and ample motherly judgement, of course.

Soon Martha realises that in order to find lasting love and fulfilment, she needs to find herself first . . . But her attempts at reinvention – from writing a definitive wish list of everything she wants in a new man, to half-marathons, business plans and meditation retreats – tend to go awry in the most surprising of ways . . .

A warm, vibrant and painfully funny novel for fans of Why Mummy Drinks, Fiona Gibson and Lucy Vine.

*Also published as The Reinvention of Martha Ross*

Critics Review

  • What fabulous, confident writing! One of the freshest, funniest, most exciting new voices I’ve read for a long time.

    Jane Fallon
  • Beautifully written and emotionally intelligent. I rooted for Martha from the start.

    Sara Lawrence, Daily Mail
  • Fresh and funny and REAL … Martha really spoke to me. She will steal everyone’s heart!

    Veronica Henry
  • Very funny and delightfully relatable – this was a real treat.

    Trisha Ashley
  • [A] warm and insightful debut with a clever, funny and totally relatable heroine.

    S magazine, Sunday Express

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