Christina Hopkinson: 4 books

What's the thing you hate most about the one you love? Mary doesn't know whether it's the way he doesn't quite reach the laundry basket when he throws his dirty clothes at it (but doesn't ever walk over and pick them up and put them in), or the balled-up tissues he leaves on the bedside table...

'You don't really grow up until you either have a kid or one of your parents dies.' Glamorously carefree and nearing forty, Tess shows no sign of settling down. That is, until she drops a bombshell on four of her friends: she's pregnant, and has chosen them as godparents. Yet while they rally round...

Izobel Brannigan is an ordinary girl, working a good but dull public relations job, and with a lousy--but slightly less dull--boyfriend. Out of boredom, she decides to Google herself and finds an entire Web site devoted to her, describing a fun, exciting, and glamorous lifestyle that she's certain...

Mary hat den Rand zum Nervenzusammenbruch schon längst überschritten, dafür sorgt ihre Familie jeden Tag aufs Neue. besonders ihr Mann treibt sie in den Wahnsinn, wenn er seine dreckige Wäsche knapp am Wäschekorb vorbei auf den Boden wirft, und einfach alles herumliegen lässt. Hat sie diesen...