Gill Sims author page

Gill Sims biography

Gill Sims is a British author and blogger known for the parenting satire series Why Mummy. In 2016 she began the Peter and Jane blog and Facebook project, written as a comic take on day-to-day family life.

Her first novel, Why Mummy Drinks, was published by HarperCollins in October 2017. Sims’ own author biography for the book describes it as the bestselling hardback fiction debut of 2017, with more than six months in the Sunday Times top ten, and a shortlist place for Debut Novel of the Year at the British Book Awards.

The series continued with Why Mummy Swears (HarperCollins, 2018), Why Mummy Doesn’t Give a **** (HarperCollins, 2019) and Why Mummy’s Sloshed (HarperCollins, 2020).

In October 2024, The Bookseller reported that Sims had written her first young adult novel for Electric Monkey, titled Lila MacKay is Very Misunderstood.