Books like Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neill

On Beauty explores a New England family’s life as they confront love, identity, and cultural divides over three decades, weaving personal struggles with broader conversations about race and belonging.

In her lush, luminous debut novel, Merlinda Bobis creates a dazzling feast for all the senses. Richly imagined, gloriously written, Banana Heart Summer is an incandescent tale of food, family, and longing--at once a love letter to mothers and daughters and a lively celebration of friendship and community. Twelve-year-old Nenita is hungry for everything: food, love, life. Growing up with five sisters and brothers, she searches for happiness in the magical smell of the deep-frying bananas of Nana Dora, who first tells Nenita the myth of the banana heart; in the tantalizing scent of Manolito, the heartthrob of Nenita and her friends; in the pungent aromas of the dishes she prepares for the most beautiful woman on Remedios Street. To Nenita, food is synonymous with love--the love she yearns to receive from her disappointed mother. But in this summer of broken hearts, new friendships, secrets, and discoveries, change will be as sudden and explosive as the monsoon that marks the end of the sweltering heat--and transforms Nenita's young life in ways she could never imagine.From the Trade Paperback edition.

A harrowing memoir that recounts Toni Maguire’s escape from childhood abuse in Ireland, her struggle to speak out, and her journey toward healing after surviving incest and sexual exploitation.

Ashley Keller trades a corporate career for a Pinterest‑perfect home life, but her attempts to follow the Instagram‑famous motherhood playbook fall hilariously short—reminding every stay‑at‑home mom that flaw is an ally, not a liability.

Ari, two months post‑birth, struggles to navigate a new motherhood while coping with a harsh winter in upstate New York—until a pregnant ex‑cult musician, Mina, arrives, offering unexpected friendship of a lifetime.

Agnes Browne and her seven "Chisellers" face new trials as their tenement faces demolition, while love and laughter continue to bind them in this humorous Dublin family saga.

Prudence Whistler discovers a new definition of family when a carousel of friends, pets, and unexpected relatives fill her home, inspiring her to launch her dream dress shop and find love.

Agnes Browne, a widowed mother of seven in 1960s North Dublin, balances family chaos, neighborhood gossip, and an unexpected romance with a French pizza‑shop owner, all delivered in Brendan O'Carroll’s sharp, affectionate humor.