A is for Anxiety, Alcohol & awful Activities. B is for Bedtime, Baking & Boredom. C is for Childcare & Cooking With Your Coat on. N is for Not Swearing (bloody frustrating) & S is for Soft Play Places, Sniffing Babies' Arses (to see if they've filled their nappies
- are there not easier ways of finding out?) & Sex (see also L, for lack thereof).

Can I Give them Back Now? The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting merrily puts two fingers up to the pervasive notion that parenthood is an eternally rewarding experience. Taking a wry, down-to-earth & humorous look at life with young children, it taps into the very normal, but hard-to-admit ambivalence that so many parents feel about raising kids.

Darkly funny & occasionally shocking, Joanna Simmons & Jay Curtis' brilliantly alternative A-Z of parenting is essential reading for all mums & dads who really, really love their kids, but...




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A is for Anxiety, Alcohol & awful Activities. B is for Bedtime, Baking & Boredom. C is for Childcare & Cooking With Your Coat on. N is for Not Swearing (bloody frustrating) & S is for Soft Play Places, Sniffing Babies' Arses (to see if they've filled their nappies
- are there not easier ways of finding out?) & Sex (see also L, for lack thereof).

Can I Give them Back Now? The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting merrily puts two fingers up to the pervasive notion that parenthood is an eternally rewarding experience. Taking a wry, down-to-earth & humorous look at life with young children, it taps into the very normal, but hard-to-admit ambivalence that so many parents feel about raising kids.

Darkly funny & occasionally shocking, Joanna Simmons & Jay Curtis' brilliantly alternative A-Z of parenting is essential reading for all mums & dads who really, really love their kids, but...




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Published in 1864, CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? was the first volume in what turned out to be the Palliser sequence of six political novels, serialized on television some years ago. It is in this book that we first meet Plantagenet Palliser, later to become Duke of Omnium, but the forces of attention concerns two women & their lovers: Lady Glencora & Alice Vavasour. Trollope wonderfully contrasts their private dramas with the public excitements of politics in a book which has all the breadth & scope of the best nineteenth-century epics. ...

' Secrets. She hated secrets. Even the nice kind bothered her'
- Karen doesn't want to get mixed up with Zoe at all, let alone
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