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Confessions of a Bad Mother

By: Stephanie Calman
Narrated by: Stephanie Calman
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Summary

Funny, acutely observed, frighteningly honest and drawing on her own and hundreds of other mum's real experiences, Stephanie Calman serves up the perfect antidote to all those books that tell you that your children must be perfect, and to all those Stepford mums and kids out there who look as if they just might be: perfectly groomed, perfectly behaved and perfectly brilliant. 

The reality, as we all know, encompasses sleepless nights, no sex for years, baby sick on your best cashmere cardy, the terrible twos and then, just when you thought it was safe to go back in the sitting room, terrible teenagers whose only means of communication is the slamming door or the grunt. 

©2019 Stephanie Calman (P)2019 Macmillan Digital Audio

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"A no-holds-barred look at mothering and it’s all the better for it...tells it like it is." (Easy Living)

"Entertaining...bites back on behalf of all women who disobey the perfect-mummy manuals and muddle through in their own way." (You Magazine

"Plenty to make parents laugh out loud with recognition...one to read with a large glass of wine once all the little monsters are tucked up in bed." (Sunday Express)

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The Ideal Light Listen

🧡 Finding the funny in the everyday is amongst my favourite types of comedy. That’s what Stephanie Calman has done here in respect of motherhood. The sleeplessness, hospital trips, school politics, every aspect of having children is lightheartedly explored.

💚 The bit I found most relatable was the jump from one child to two. She mirrored my feelings about it almost exactly.

💜 This is more a series of anecdotes or a meander down motherhood lane than a story with a concrete plot. I’m a fan of this style, but not everyone will be.
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🎧Authors reading their own work can be cringey. Not so here. Stephanie Caulman has a very Gabrielle Glaister quality to her performance. It came across as affable and fun.

🎧 This is the very definition of an easy listen. You can drop in, drop out and you won’t be lost.
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SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO…

This is the closest I have found to the hilarious Why Mummy series, even down to the narration.

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super entertaining...I laughed so much!!

and as someone who has no kids, I laughed while learning about the realities of Parenthood

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