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|author=Rupert Christiansen
|title=I Know You're Going to be Happy: A Story of Love and Betrayal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Kathleen Lyon, whose family were respectable and hard working but with no claim to celebrity other than a distant relationship to the [[The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham by Michael Jago|Earl of Clanmorris]] married Michael Christiansen, scion of a newspaper family, in a fashionable London church in 1948. Both were talented and successful journalists and they were very much in love. ''I know you're going to be happy'', wrote a senior Fleet Street figure and Rupert Christiansen wryly points out that this was too tempting to fate. There were two children of the marriage and when Rupert was four and his sister Anna just a few months old Michael Christiansen announced to the family that a photographer from his paper would be coming to take pictures of them all that afternoon - and he then told his wife that their eleven-year marriage was over and he was leaving to live with his secretary.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721242</amazonuk>
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|summary=Stella Smith is fed up with the expectation that mums should be superwomen. She feels that there are certain women, who appear to have achieved perfection in terms of motherhood, that make all other mums feel inept and inferior. She feels that realism is best and that to strive to be 'good enough' is what most mums should aspire to. That is why she sets up the 'Mums Like Us' group that meets weekly in her messy kitchen and rejoices in slovenliness, messy clothes and overeating.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099574586</amazonuk>
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