Paperback

Published: Lightning Books (September 2019)

ISBN: 9781785631566

The Bad Mother’s Diary

Suzy K. Quinn

£7.99

Why Mummy Drinks meets Bridget Jones

The first in the bestselling comedy series

Juliette is a new mother, but life isn’t going the way she’d hoped. She doesn’t live in a cottage with roses around the door. She doesn’t own a rolling pin. And Daisy’s out-of-work actor father still hasn’t proposed.

While Juliette sobs her way through sleepless nights and nappy changes, Nick drinks Guinness and plays computer games. Meanwhile, his helicopter mother is always on hand to find fault – with Juliette. At least when Nick pops the question, things will look up…won’t they?

With a supporting cast including Juliette’s over-honest mother, potty-mouthed grandmother, militant hippy best friend and handsome-but-scarred hotel magnate Alex Dalton, the first in Suzy K. Quinn’s hilarious, bestselling Bad Mother series is a sassy, uplifting, addictive treat.

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Friday, January 1st

New Year’s Day

Back at my parents’ house after HUGE argument with Nick.

Am FURIOUS.

Asked Nick to look after Daisy while I went to the supermarket (I always get distracted if I bring her along, and buy random things like special edition brownie Mars Bars).

Got home to find Nick playing computer games, with TEN empty bottles of original Guinness beside him.

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Friday, January 1st

New Year’s Day

Back at my parents’ house after HUGE argument with Nick.

Am FURIOUS.

Asked Nick to look after Daisy while I went to the supermarket (I always get distracted if I bring her along, and buy random things like special edition brownie Mars Bars).

Got home to find Nick playing computer games, with TEN empty bottles of original Guinness beside him.

TEN BOTTLES! In TWO hours!

I was furious.

‘I’m not drunk,’ he slurred. ‘If I were drunk, I’d never have cracked this part of Assassin’s Creed.’

I demanded he walk in a straight line, and he fell over.

As I was screaming at him, Nick’s mother let herself into the apartment.

She saw Nick on the floor and said, ‘You look tired, darling.’ Then she asked what all the fuss was about.

I said Nick was getting drunk when he was supposed to be looking after a three-month old baby.

‘Oh Nick,’ said Helen. ‘But Juliette, he has been working all day. He’s obviously stressed.’

Working! All Nick’s done today is read a two-page script for an online poker commercial.

‘If I ever need relationship advice from a divorcee,’ I told Helen, ‘I’ll let you know.’

Then I screamed at Nick a bit more, threw a bag together and said I was taking Daisy to my parents’ house.

I would have made a strong, dignified-woman exit, except I had to come back for Daisy’s pink waffle blanket, Teddy Snuggles, blackout curtain with suckers and finally her Lullaby Light Bear.

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‘A witty, warm, real, observational and poignant page-turner. I loved it!’

Nicola May

‘Brilliantly funny and so real – the perfect pick-me-up page-turner’

Kate Harrison

reviews

‘Very relatable for frazzled parents but also a happy ending’

Stuff – top picks for summer

‘Frank, disarming and hilarious, it’s the best women’s fiction I have read since the last Marian Keyes and it made me spit more coffee out than Bridget Jones’ Diary ever did. I can’t wait to read books 2 and 3’

Rachel Read It

‘This book made me laugh so much it became dangerous for a mother-of-four to continue’

Books In My Hallway

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ABOUT

Suzy K. Quinn

Suzy K. Quinn writes in four different genres: psychological thriller, comedy, romance and children’s fantasy.

She was first published by Hachette in 2010 with her debut novel Glass Geishas (now Night Girls). Then she self-published a romance series, The Ivy Lessons, which became #1 Kindle romance bestsellers in the US and UK. After her second daughter was born in 2013, she self-published the Bad Mother’s Diary series, which also became Kindle bestsellers. Her novels have now been translated into seven languages and her books have sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.

She lives in Wivenhoe, Essex, with her husband Demi and two daughters, and travels to Mexico every year to write and study Mayan story-telling.