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Tip of the day

If your DH says he wants breakfast in bed, chuck a sleeping bag onto the kitchen floor. MamaG

Quote of the week

Bucharest on the potentially perilous pitfalls of pregnancy: "You get so used to grown men whose first names you don't know shuftying about up your nethers that you have to chant to yourself, like a mantra, in the dentist's waiting room, "Don't take your pants off, it's just teeth this time."

Recipe of the week

Porpoise's red berry pavlova: lashings of strawberries and cream for Wimbledon finals weekend - with the ace addition of a crunchy, chewy meringue base. Serve with panache and await a grateful chorus of, "Ooh, I say!"


With the Mumsnet Book Club already thriving, we thought it about time we started reviewing grown up books and for this category we're looking to hand out the wooden spoon to the worst book you've read this year (that was published in the last year or so). Please add as many reviews as you like and feel free to comment on other folks' choices. As ever, if you have any suggestions for new categories you'd like to see, please send them over to contactus@mumsnet.com.
Read a Beginner's Guide to Worst book this year Discuss these products with other parents on our Adult fiction talk forum


Mumsnet best Score No. of reviews
Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom stars 9
The Island - Victoria Hislop stars 6
Sepulchre - Kate Mosse stars 5
All the rest
The School Run - Sophie King stars 1
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini stars 4
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan stars 1
Mums@home - Sophie King stars 2
Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips stars 1
The Rise and Fall of The Queen of Suburbia - Sarah May stars 2
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards stars 3
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Rebecca Miller stars 2
My Lover's Lover - Maggie O'Farrell stars 1
Shire Hell - Rachel Johnson stars 1
Single White E-mail - Jessica Adams stars 1
The Rain Before It Falls - Jonathan Coe stars 1
The Resurrectionist - James Bradley stars 1
Weaving Shadows - Margaret Murphy stars 1
Arlington Park - Rachel Cusk stars 1


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