We don't simply throw our hands up and continue to fancy ourselves deeply prescient simply because we're in this field, even as our fights with our children continually prove us wrong. Only one of them is on goodreads so Randi, if you're reading this, I'll try to be a little nicer in the meeting but here I'm going to be brutally honest. Die Charaktere werden im Laufe des Buches immer lebendiger und wirken wie reale Menschen, die einem aus dem Leben berichten. Her first three novels, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Oh Dear Silvia and According to YES, are all Sunday Times bestsellers.

Each chapter is narrated by a different voice, telling the story of a modern family, all living in their own separate bubbles, lurching towards meltdown. Mo/s Mother, the Grandma who's deep insight is matched by a remarkable ability to bake the right cake for the right person (reminded me of Joanne Harris's 'Chocolat!When I won this novel courtesy of Mel’s Random Reviews I was thrilled and took in away with me on my recent holiday looking for a laugh or two. The story is told in diary form by Mo, the matriarch of the family and her two teenage children, Dora and Peter.

Dem Vater bleibt nichts anderes übrig als die Scherben zusammenzukehren, wenn in der Familie wieder etwas zu Bruch geht. Mo the mum was a slightly better characterization - but I do wonder if her story was the strongest by far,and that this may have been a much better novel if the story had been told only through her voice?However, the great laughs I was promised just didn’t materialise, as I only laughed out loud once – a huge disappointment. She’s about to do something unusually wild and selfish, which will leave the entire family teetering on the edge of a precipice. Mo is a mother of 2, wife and child psychologist who is struggling with her own issues and errant teenagers!