I think probably what I want people to know is that although my characters are mothers, it’s not necessarily about the day-to-day ins and outs of parenting. Mums are mums, and that’s amazing, but we are also people too and we have lives and our own personalities and we have our own identities. And this is a wee bit of a voyage for these women, who are discovering their identities again and their freedom, away from the kids. There’s a little bit of debauchery along the way. They fly into Ibiza and soon arrive at Unicorn Utopia (yup), their sacred spiritual sanctuary in the middle of nowhere. What, no alcohol, someone is surely having a laugh? Er, this isn’t what they bargained for and they to not intend to spend their short time on the island tramping about in nature and contemplating their navels, so they decamp to a very upmarket establishment, where Cara is confronted by the last people on earth she would expect to meet. Her sister and mother. Given they all have a rather delicate history of late, this may not going to turn out well. Psst, I have it on good authority I’d fit right in with this crew after showing a friend my favourite quote…

The actual inspiration for Mother Hens was born of my own desire to ditch my kids for a weekend and go crazy with my friends in Ibiza, because we would all talk about it in the mum chat.” My mouth dropped open, with an audible ‘No way! I didn’t see that coming!’. The epilogue is a must read, as it puts a lot of problems faced in the book to bed, literally. You will run through a range of emotions reading the book, with more emphasis on laughing out loud. So becareful where you choose to read the book!I didn't really know what to fill in on the UCAS form. All my friends were going to be doctors or lawyers and I wasn't clever enough for that, so I thought I'd do PR. And then someone suggested taking it to the next level by doing a vlog. I was like I can't do that and then I had this idea of a parenting parody. I went from never wanting to appear in front of a camera to a full-on music video. It's funny actually, even though I've had two kids before, there’s this immediate realisation of knowing that you're pregnant and then all the googling that you do! I'm like, oh, my god, what kind of fruit is it? I don't know why it's always fruit. And fruit you've never heard or like an heirloom tomato. I’d tell Steve and he's like, “well how big is that” and I go “I don’t know I’ve no idea what it is, we only get cherry tomatoes!”

In my earlier dating days I couldn’t find someone I liked enough to share chips and dips with, never mind DNA - so it was a journey.” Cara Stringer, née Carmichael, aged 37, is married to Dom, a professional football manager (although elsewhere he is referred to as the assistant head coach, and yes, it is Man United) and consequently they live in a huge house in Cheshire. She still fancies him but he has a secret that blows up her world. Move on two years and she is hell bent on accompanying her friend Jac and more friends on her hen do to Ibiza. But it wasn't until a year later when Sophie posted the parody 'Smell Of You' - swapping Sheeran's lyrics about meeting a girl for the mundane life of Tom Hardy-loving, nit-phobic, Dairylea-covered mums - that she started to get noticed. The book is pure entertainment; Cara Carmichael's life is absolutely turned upside down by her cheating husband. For reasons I won't share (don't want to give any spoilers!) She's devastated and she her friends drag her to Ibiza for a hen party, her heart just isn't in it.... But then suddenly she's in the middle of a situation she'd never even dreamt of. In her book, Sophie asks: "When it comes to adult life, and parenthood, you will never be ready. So what happens when you hit your mid-thirties and still feel like an out-of-depth teen trapped in the slightly sagging skin suit of a tired and tested mother of two?" Read More Related ArticlesMy kids were scared'... Family day out ruined after 'abusive' cyclist spits on car window and punches wing mirror