August 2015
Beginner
250 pages
4h 42m
English
They’ve never tidied their room. They’ve played their music long and loud and driven you mad. The two of you are about at breaking point and you wonder where you went wrong as a parent of a sullen, moody, dressed-in-black teenager. They are monosyllabic, depressed (but miraculously cheer up when their mates come round), always hungry, rude, mercenary, troublesome and relentlessly embarrassed by you. And you blame yourself. It is all your fault. You have somehow failed them. Rubbish. This is all good stuff.
Look, your kids have got to fall out with you to be able to leave home. If they loved you too much they couldn’t leave. You’ve nurtured them, wiped their bums, dressed them, fed ...
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