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Tip of the day

Never ask a child IF they need the loo... moodlum

Quote of the week

CaptainNancy's (admirably succinct) family rules: "Don't be a dingbat/duffer. Keep calm and carry on. Dream big. Shut up and get on with it."

Recipe of the week

Carmenere's cinder toffee: sweet, sticky, made-in-five-minutes toffee squares that'll spark off a few 'yums' among the 'oohs' and 'aahs' of your little fireworks-watchers.


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


Mumsnet best Score No. of reviews
Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom stars 9
The Island - Victoria Hislop stars 7
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 3
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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