Never enough
When Allison Pearson’s best-selling novel I Don’t Know How She Does It was published in 2003, it hit a nerve. The central character, Kate Reddy, is a successful fund manager operating in several time zones, just about managing a home with a husband and two kids. She flirts with an affair with a colleague, and exchanges emails with friends, but can never pin down a date to meet up for drinks. Her life buckles under the strain of it all before she quits her job to save her marriage and her sanity.
The difficulties she faces – trying to cram everything into a day – chimed with the common perception that our lives are speeding up, that, in which she describes the feeling that there is no way to get everything done: the Overwhelm. I know what she means; I bet you do too.
