You Be Mother

All Abi was looking for was the perfect family. Instead, she got a perfect mess. A charming, funny and irresistible novel about families, friendship and tiny little white lies. "Here it was. Here was what she wanted. Here was everything that reading Mallory Towers to yourself on a twin bed while eating Muller caramel rice with a bent fork was not. Life in thick layers." The only thing Abi ever wanted was a family. Only not the one she'd got. A mother who spends her days snipping pictures out of OK! in the front room of their ex-council house, where the heat never quite makes it to the hallway. A beloved father and older sister remembered only from photos. So when Abi falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pack up her old life in Southfields fast enough, to start all over in Sydney and make her own family. It is not until she arrives, with three-week-old Jude in tow, that Abi realises Stu is not quite ready to be a father after all. And he is the...