A bestseller in the UK, THE BAD MOTHER'S HANDBOOK concentrates on the troubles and triumphs of three generations of women with tangled family histories. Karen gave birth to Charlotte when she was only 16--and now Charlotte, at 17, is pregnant herself. And Karen was adopted as a baby by Nan, who is now an old and very eccentric woman. All three live in the same housing project in the north of England, and all three tell their stories, alternating voices, as each one copes with her own particular generational--and individual--concerns.