In Babyville by Jane Green, three women have decidedly different baby experiences. Julia desperately wants a baby even though she's unhappy with her partner Mark. Maeve never wants a baby or a man as she is strictly a career woman. Sam is deliriously happy being pregnant but did not realize the experience it would be to actually have full responsibility for a baby. This book was structured a little bit differently from most of Green's others in giving each of the women a separate section of the book but tying them altogether throughout.
Sam is the one pregnant friend that Julia can stand to be around even though her own plans to get pregnant are failing. Maeve's pregnancy is totally unplanned when she has a brief encounter with someone she works with. Sam is overwhelmed by her responsibilities for baby George and thinks she us starting to un-love her husband. Julia met Maeve at a wedding of a mutual friend of all threee women, and Sam met Maeve at a coffee shop. As in all Jane Green books, things will have a way of working out...although there might be a surprising twist or two.
Jane Green is one on the consummate writers of women's fiction. Her chick lit is always enjoyable and often infused with humor. Formerly a journalist in the United Kingdom, Green lives with her husband and their blended family in Westport, Connecticut.
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