Parenting book Hoping for the Best: Three months in the life of a Twin plus one Mummy offers a unique day-to-day glimpse into the challenges and craziness thrown at a mum to three young boys. Started as a diary, the book was born when other school mums suggested that this would be just the kind of book that they would love to read - not a parenting manual, not a book about becoming a new mum, but the true reality of life as a mum to identical twins plus one.