Sensitive and Hilarious

This is a excellent novel, in which the author shows incredible insight into contemporary life through the eyes of three different generations of women, occasionally enriched with nostalgia.
The text is at times painfully true, often very funny, with the odd dash of irony for good measure.
The actress does a fantastic job of reading it, and reads each character in a distinct way and is quite simply, brilliant (in the words of the youngest woman Charlotte)

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Beautiful weekend

Where does The Bad Mother's Handbook rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Top 3 as a fiction, eat it up in a weekend,

What did you like best about this story?

Up and down - gave me a perspective that I will never have.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

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Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Yes, big time, Cannot explain you just have to listen and that is a straight single guy talking.

Any additional comments?

Straight single male reviewing.

Kate @volewriter was met by me discussing feminism à propos nothing on Twitter (don't ask - was about 1970's adverts and I was less than enthusiastic!).

I then found out she wrote this - so went in slightly biased of her being likeable - yes despite the above - she is witchy that way ha,ha. She is even more witty and alluring and just bloody great in book form as she is on Twitter (and that is saying something)

Only downside? Would love her to be talking to me in her real voice. Ms Nash is now how I imagine her, just lovely.

Biased review cause I now know her, but honest. Longer than you expect but strangely over in no time - leaving you contented.

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Don't be fooled by the title !

This is a serious book - filled with fun and laughs as well as bitchiness -

about life, adoption, love, abortion, divorce, dementia, reconciliation, death...



As I started to read I thought what a load of tosh - this is for kids - then I hit

gold and never looked back. It is about kids, and mothers, and grandmothers

and families, The narrative is in three voices - Karen(mum) Charotte (teenager)

and Nan (Gran). And Kate Long is a wonderful writer - great fun and eloquent.



Listen carefully so you know who is speaking. It's important.

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I really enjoyed this.

An excellent story - made me laugh and cry at differnt times.

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leaning too hard on "crude and vulgar" for humour

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Sadly I wasn't a fan of this book at all. I felt it was using crude sexual escapades for laughs and giggles which was fine once or twice but after the fifth or sixth time it was more than starting to wear thin. It was difficult to know which character was talking (Phyllida Nash narrates the 3 women and they all have the same grim depressing outlook on life). I had no rapport with any of the women so unfortunately gave up.

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