The Bad Mother's Handbook

The Bad Mother's Handbook is the story of one year (1997)in the life of 3 unforgettable women:

Charlotte is doing her 'A' levels...& she's pregnant.

Karen, her Mum is 33 & now she's about to become a Grandmother...how chuffed is she with that?

And then there is Nan, who isn't so bothered about her Grandaughter's pregnancy - she has other things on her mind...where is she again?

I loved this book! The blurb quotes were right...

"Funny & moving...will have mums & daughters laughing in recognition...It's not quite happy families but all the more believable for it"

"Chock-full of Northern charm" - yes, I'm from the North,though Yorkshire, & not Lancashire as in the book but still, Nan reminds me of how my husband's Grandma used to talk -great to hear again & I'm interested to know what "non-Northerners" will make of it!

Highly recommended!

Swallowing Grandma

Katherine Millar is eighteen and desperate to be less fat, less swotty and to have cooler friends. But most of all she wishes she had two parents, instead of one grandma, Poll.

Poll is pushing seventy, half blind and utterly poisonous. She has looked after Katherine since she was a baby, when her father was killed in a car crash and her mother vanished. Poll's ambition is for things to stay exactly the same for ever, and for Katherine never to leave their pit village of Bank Top.

Katherine has other ideas, and she can feel change is coming; the omens are all around her. In the meantime, she cleans up after Poll, revises for her exams, watches daytime television and surfs the net at the library trying to find out how to be bulimic. What she doesn't quite realize yet is that life won't always wait for you to catch up with it....

I loved this book! Mainly told from Katherine's view, with excerpts from the mother she never knew, this is a pecerptive, funny & sometimes slightly sad tale about the obligations & duties that are part of family life.

Katherine both loves & loathes her Grandma Poll (who can be a difficult character to say the least!) But she's all the family she has...or is she?

This book that kept me hooked to the end, wondering whether Katherine would find the strength to break away from Poll or would family ties prove too binding?

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