How NOT to Murder your Mother
by Stephanie Calman

Release Date: 5th Sep 2008
Publisher: Pan Macmillian
ISBN: 978 0 2307 0740 5
RRP: £12.99

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Trills along nicely, if somewhat aimlessly...

OK, so it doesn't exactly tell you how NOT to murder your mother - but it is hilarious (in parts), which makes us forgive that little shortcoming.

Calman isn't new to this type of novel; you know the type - the ones where you don't actually learn anything, there is no storyline or 'characters' and it isn't quite non-fiction, but it's not exactly fictitious either. I'm not a big fan of this hard-to-pin-down genre. It all seems a little superfluous for my liking, a kind of nonsensical nothingness from which you can lose several hours of life reading about the mundane if not idiosyncratic niceties of other people's lives.

I suppose the book reviews the transformative nature of your relationship with your mother; from being the cared for to the carer, so to speak. It also addresses the fact that sometimes it is hard for all of us to recognise our parents as human beings with foibles, annoying habits and a past (including the occasional sordid tryst).

Calman's conversational style and tone is well suited to this type of novel, with the minutia of everyday life redrawn to be more appealing and infinitely more comical than it should be. How not to murder your mother is light-hearted with warm undertones that is perfect for those who want to lose themselves in someone else's business for a few hours.

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