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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 You Be Mother
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'What do you do, when you find the perfect family, and it's not yours?

'A charming, funny and irresistible novel about families, friendship and tiny little white lies. The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pack up her old life in Croydon 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 only person she knows in this hot, dazzling, confusing city, where the job of making friends is turning out to be harder than she thought.

'That is, until she meets Phyllida, her wealthy, charming, imperious older neighbour, and they become almost like mother and daughter. If only Abi had not told Phil that teeny tiny small lie, the very first day they met ... ' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: It has to be for you, Bebs'

  • Epigraph: Any idiot can face a crisis. It's this day-to-day living the wears you out. - Anton Chekov

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Orion ,
      2022 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 448p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 19 May 2022.
      ISBN: 9781474625029

Other Formats

  • Also large print.
  • Dyslexic edition.
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  • Croydon, Surrey,
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
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