The Bad Mother’s Christmas

By Megan Thomas

I was really keen to read something seasonal this December, so was thrilled to be gifted this book by Eye Lightning Books.

I haven’t read any of the other books in the Bad Mother series, but this isn’t much of a limitation apart from it being a little harder to understand character motivation (especially because it is in first person diary format).

This is light and funny, reading like if Bridget Jones had to deal with being a single parent to a toddler rather than the affections of Mr Darcy. In this fourth book of the series, Juliette attempts to bring everyone together and be a big happy family – but with a jealous ex, a distracted fiancé, a little girl who squanders all best efforts at cleaning, bonkers parents and drink-hurling future mother in laws, this may be a bit of a challenge…