The School Gate Survival Guide
Reigate resident and local author Kerry Fisher visited the BBC Surrey studios to speak to Mark Carter about her new book The School Gate Survival Guide, how she became an author, her life experiences and challenges of publishing a book.
The School Gate Survival Guide was released on 3rd July in ebook format, with the paperback release on 11th September.
A hilarious, straight-talking read for fans of Fiona Neill and Gill Hornby’s ‘The Hive’.
Feisty Maia Etxeleku is a cleaner for ladies who lunch. She spends her life wiping up spilt Sauvignon and hoovering around handbags before rushing back home to skivvy after her children’s feckless father on an estate where survival depends on your ability to look the other way.
But an unusual inheritance catapults her into a different world where no child can survive without organic apricots and Kumon maths classes – and no woman can contemplate a week without Pilates and pedicures.
As she blunders through a middle class minefield, dashing from coffee mornings to her mops and buckets, she is drawn to the one man who can help her family fit in. But is his interest in her purely professional or will her modern My Fair Lady experiment end in disaster?
If you’d like a chance to find out the answer to all those questions you’d love to ask about the publishing/writing/agenting process, Kerry Fisher and her agent, Clare Wallace from Darley Anderson Literary Agency will be at the Festival of Writing in York, 12th-14th September. You can also go to their panel on Saturday 13th September,called “Ask Us Anything!”
Kerry will also be speaking at Reigate Library on 2nd October and other times running around like a mad woman on Reigate Hill with her dog!
You can find out more about Kerry and her books at www.kerryfisherauthor.com
