by Sarah Moss
Set on a tiny Hebridean island, Night Waking is the story of Anna, academic and mother of two small children, who is working on a book about childhood in the eighteenth century while her own children are driving her to distraction and her aristocratic husband studies puffins, oblivious to the demand...
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/213130051
Too much of put-upon wife and useless husband, comic chick lit set pieces about food on clothes etc, disguised as a social/historical thriller on why babies died on the islands - what a surprise.