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It's A Dad's Life
Kevin Murphy

“You’ve got to be able to be on your own a lot and to cut off from the whole career thing. You can’t allow yourself to become a stay-at-home dad and still harbour this romantic notion that you could have had a career…if you come away from your career and part of you wants to be back chasing a career, it’s not going to work. You will raise kids with a guilt-trip.”
- Kevin Murphy, Irish Independent

A rapidly ageing stay-at-home father, three adorable but rapidly growing daughters, and one rapidly executive wife. These are the ingredients of Kevin Murphy’s hilarious weekly column in Ireland’s bestselling newspaper, Sunday World. Week in, week out, he brings the understated art of househusbanding and all its zany happenings to vibrant, comic life. Now, for the first time, the very best of these columns have been brought together in A Dad’s Life, the definitive chronicle of how a one-time newspaperman copes with some of life’s biggest challenges – fatherhood, parenting, hotpress management and, yes, supermarket trolleys.

At every turn, his wit sparkles and his one-liners crackle with the intensity that only an authentically exhausted chef, nurse and taxi man can muster. Be it holidays from hell, Christmas migraines, foody fads or tales from the teenies’ twilight zone, Murphy excels at bringing us front line dispatches from the modern battleground of suburban family life. If journalism is literature in a hurry, this is the Harley Davidson version.