Penguin presents the audiobook model of The Artwork of Lifestyle Admin, written and browse by Elizabeth Emens.

This book will give you many hours of your life back.

Each day, an unseen form of labour creeps into our lives, stealing precious occasions of free time, placing a strain on our schedules and relationships, and earning neither appreciation nor compensation in return. Scheduling doctor’s consultations. Planning for a party. Buying a present. Filling out paperwork. This labour is normally ‘lifestyle admin’ – the about The Art of Life Admin: HOW EXACTLY TO Do Less, GET IT DONE Better, and Live Even more kind of secretarial and managerial function necessary to run a life and children.

Elizabeth Emens was an operating mom with two small children, swamped like so most of us, when she realised that life admin was consuming her. Desperate to survive and to help others along the way, she collected favourite guidelines, admin confessions, as well as the secrets of admin-happy households.

Drawing on her research and composing in a wholly original manner, Emens shows how this type of labour is established and how exactly it affects our lives; how exactly we might decrease, redistribute and even prevent it; what ‘admin personalities’ we would have; and how to deal with admin in associations.

The Art of Life Admin is the book that may teach us all how to do less of it, also to do it better.