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S5 BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Philippa Perry and Sadie Jones

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Importance of Being a Proper Mother

I would be late at the school gates on purpose so that I didn't have to see the other mothers. My mother would always say when I was growing up to go, I'm not a proper mother. So I kind of built up this thing and my kids when they were five and six started at a new school with no parents association. They needed someone to run the Parents Association and I just thought, this is my chance. It got to the end of the year and being shafted by someone who really wanted to do it and I realized that I had not written a word. People come round and you've made tea and you've gotTea and you've baked the thing and they

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