The Bad Mother's Handbook by Kate Long AUDIO

Reassuringly hilarious and funny at a time when I was feeling like a particularly bad mother. Now I just consider my job done if we haven't had to visit A&E in the last week...

AZ: "Why is it all so difficult? Why do the most ridiculous mistakes have the most disastrous consequences? When are you too old to throw up in a flowerbed after too much vodka? When are you too young to be a mother? Both hilarious and wise, it is a clear-eyed look at motherhood - and childhood - in its many guises, from the moment the condom breaks to the moment you file for divoice or, more optimistically, from the moment you hear your baby's first cry to the moment you realize that there are as many sorts of mother as there are children, and that love sometimes is the most important thing of all. "