How Hard Can It Be?: A Novel

From the author of I Don’t Know How She Does It, which sold a breathtaking four million copies worldwide. Critics are calling Pearson’s sequel better than the original. (This never happens!) The story picks up seven years later, with our heroine Kate Reddy staring down her 50th birthday—and she doesn’t like what she sees. The intervening years haven’t been kind: her husband lost his job and proceeded to have an inconvenient midlife crisis, she’s struggling with her work and caring for aging relatives, and she’s currently doing damage control on her 16-year-old’s “belfie” (that’s a selfie of your bum, and her daughter’s belfie went viral). But the Reddys are broke, so Kate needs to go back to work—even though a terrible job interview makes it clear she’s aged out of her field. Antics ensue. Perfect for Sophie Kinsella fans.