abstract:Allison Pearson (née Judith Allison Lobbett, born 1960) is a Welsh author and newspaper columnist. Her novel I Don't Know How She Does It, published in 2002, has sold four million copies and has been made into a movie of the same name starring Sarah Jessica Parker.
In this adaptation of the best-selling novel by AllisonPearson (the wife of Anthony Lane, a writer for this magazine), Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Kate Reddy, a Boston investment banker and frequent flyer whose heavy travel routine burdens her with guilt as it makes life at home hard for her architect husband, Richard (Greg Kinnear), and their two small children.