“The Diary of a Bad Mom” is a chronicle of one year in the life of an average family: daughter, mother and grandmother. That year, Tony Blair became prime minister, Princess Diana died in a car accident, and seventeen-year-old Charlotte, having just lost her virginity, discovered that she was pregnant. The girl is desperate, her mother Karen is furious, and her grandmother is delighted. Charlotte's friend Paul doesn't want to hear about the baby, and her kind and caring friend takes on a lot of worries to make her life easier. This frank, funny and wise book is a sober look at the relationships between fathers and children, mothers and daughters. Why does it happen in life that children constantly repeat the mistakes of their parents? How and what should parents talk about with their adult children? And what should the parents themselves do in order to finally find their happiness, as did the heroes of this book? “The Diary of a Bad Mother” is the literary debut of Kate Long (b. 1964), which caused a real sensation in England.