Review: All the Other Mothers Hate Me

All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3.5 Stars.

Although I thought that the main character of Florence was a selfish, horrible mother with a drinking habit, drug habit, and sex addiction, she comes through in the end.

The storyline was interesting. A boy goes missing while on a school trip, and Florence thinks her son might either have something to do with it or know something about it. So she goes off on her own to cover up what she believes her son might have done and to find out what really happened.

She makes friends with Jenny, who is also an American now living in England like Florence, and together, they do some sleuthing.

It was a clever plot with primarily unlikeable characters, a lot of lies, and a twist in the end that I never saw coming.

*ARC was supplied by the publisher G.P. 

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SYNOPSIS: ""The missing boy is 10-year-old Alfie Risby, and to be perfectly honest with you, he's a little shit."

Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her girl band career, she has only one reason to get out of bed each day: her ten-year-old son Dylan. But then Alfie Risby, her son’s bully and the heir to a vast frozen food empire, mysteriously vanishes during a class trip, and Dylan becomes the prime suspect. Florence, for once, is faced with a task she can’t quit: She’s got to find Alfie and clear her son’s name, or risk losing Dylan forever.

The only problem? Florence has no useful skills, let alone investigative ones, and all the other school moms hate her. Oh, and Florence has a reason to suspect Dylan might not be as innocent as she’d like to believe…

Hilarious and twisted, propulsive and furious, All the Other Mothers Hate Me is the must-read book of 2025."