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Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. She
can juggle nine different currencies in five different time zones, and
get herself and two children washed and dressed and out of the house in
half an hour. A victim of time famine, Kate counts seconds like other
women calories. As she hurtles between appointments, through her head
spools the crazy tape-loop of the working mother's life: must remember
client reports, bouncy castles, transatlantic phone call, nativity play,
check Dow Jones, cancel hygienist, squeeze sagging pelvic floor, make
time for sex. Factor in a manipulative nanny, and Australian boss who
looks at Kate's breasts as if they're on special offer, a long-suffering
but definitely suffering - husband, her quietly aghast in-laws, two
needy children, and an e-mail lover, and you have a woman juggling so
many balls that some day soon something's going to hit the ground. |
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