false 3841765 1 From internationally bestselling author Kate Long, a perceptive, vivid, and painfully funny novel about family ties and growing up<br><br>On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Katherine wants only three things: a smidge of social grace, the body of Courteney Cox, and two parents. What she has instead is an almost complete lack of friends, a pudgy figure, and one extremely eccentric, nearly blind grandmother named Poll. Since Katherine&#8217;s father died and her mother disappeared, Poll is her only family. And not only does Poll buy all of Katherine&#8217;s clothes, but she forbids her to leave the house unless it&#8217;s absolutely necessary. Would a chance to go to Oxford count? But the bigger question is: How can she abandon her grandma? <br><br>Just when Katherine has resigned herself to a lifetime of watching daytime television, sparring with Poll, and visiting the town library for &#8220;fun,&#8221; along comes a handsome, magnetic young man named Collum, who claims to be Katherine&#8217;s long-lost cousin. But as Katherine is about to learn, when it comes to family, things aren&#8217;t always as they seem. <br><br><br><b><u>Praise for Kate Long&#8217;s <i>The Bad Mother&#8217;s Handbook</i></u></b><br><br>&#8220;Kate Long manages to brilliantly balance equal parts heartbreak and hilarity in a novel that you will love unconditionally.&#8221;<br>&#8211;Sarah Bird, author of <i>The Flamenco Academy</i><br><br>&#8220;There is a lovely sweetness to this heartbreaking/heartwarming story.&#8221;<br><i>&#8211;The Seattle Times</i><br><br>&#8220;Funny, touching and utterly winning.&#8221;<br><i>&#8211;Publishers Weekly</i> 3886688 26 8 2008 Family Sold Separately: A Novel total:21|5:0|4:6|3:9|2:4|1:2| 21 61 49 6 3841765 034547967X 9780345479679 21 6 2.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3841765.Family_Sold_Separately_A_Novel 4 1 false Thu Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 16:35:49 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 14:29:41 -0700 2008
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