Author: Sophia Money-Coutts
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: HQ
Publication Date: 16th April 2020
Rating: 5 Stars
‘No question about it, there are two little purple lines. I’m pregnant.’
After eight years together, Lil Bailey thought she’d already found ‘the one’ – that is, until he dumped her for a blonde twenty-something colleague. So she does what any self-respecting singleton would do: swipes right, puts on her best bra and finds herself on a first date with a handsome mountaineer called Max. What’s the worst that can happen?
Well it’s pretty bad actually. First Max ghosts her and then, after weeing on a stick (but mostly her hands), a few weeks later Lil discovers she’s pregnant. She’s single, thirty-one and living in a thimble-sized flat in London, it’s hardly the happily-ever-after she was looking for.
Lil’s ready to do the baby-thing on her own – it can’t be that hard, right? But she should probably tell Max, if she can track him down. Surely he’s not that Max, the highly eligible, headline-grabbing son of Lord and Lady Rushbrooke, currently trekking up a mountain in South Asia? Oh, maybe he wasn’t ignoring Lil after all…
After eight years together, Lil Bailey thought she’d already found ‘the one’ – that is, until he dumped her for a blonde twenty-something colleague. So she does what any self-respecting singleton would do: swipes right, puts on her best bra and finds herself on a first date with a handsome mountaineer called Max. What’s the worst that can happen?
Well it’s pretty bad actually. First Max ghosts her and then, after weeing on a stick (but mostly her hands), a few weeks later Lil discovers she’s pregnant. She’s single, thirty-one and living in a thimble-sized flat in London, it’s hardly the happily-ever-after she was looking for.
Lil’s ready to do the baby-thing on her own – it can’t be that hard, right? But she should probably tell Max, if she can track him down. Surely he’s not that Max, the highly eligible, headline-grabbing son of Lord and Lady Rushbrooke, currently trekking up a mountain in South Asia? Oh, maybe he wasn’t ignoring Lil after all…
Hilarious, from the opening few pages until the last, this is fabulous writing. Although I should say I was on the verge of tears of happiness towards the end too, but other than that I was laughing.
This is an author that is not afraid to show what being a woman is really like, from the rather too graphic description of childbirth, to self pleasuring, which doesn't seem to appear that often in books.. and a whole lot in between..
... its a no holds barred look at the 9 months from accidentally conceiving a child with a one night stand, and everything that may happen in between.
It feels very honest, and quite eye opening as someone who hasn't been pregnant.
I also loved the school that Lil was working at, I can really picture it so well, and the class she has is fabulous!
All of Lil's friends and family are fabulous too, and it is really hard not to like Max despite of the initial ghosting.
Even better than her first book, I absolutely adored this book and had a good few hours of pure enjoyment from it.
Thank you to HQ and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
This is an author that is not afraid to show what being a woman is really like, from the rather too graphic description of childbirth, to self pleasuring, which doesn't seem to appear that often in books.. and a whole lot in between..
... its a no holds barred look at the 9 months from accidentally conceiving a child with a one night stand, and everything that may happen in between.
It feels very honest, and quite eye opening as someone who hasn't been pregnant.
I also loved the school that Lil was working at, I can really picture it so well, and the class she has is fabulous!
All of Lil's friends and family are fabulous too, and it is really hard not to like Max despite of the initial ghosting.
Even better than her first book, I absolutely adored this book and had a good few hours of pure enjoyment from it.
Thank you to HQ and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
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