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Babyface for non-msners!

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 20:58

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mummytosteven · 21/07/2004 21:01

liked most of it, especially the coffee mornings/competitive mothers, thought the french bit was quite incongruous, liked the ending

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:03

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PicadillyCircus · 21/07/2004 21:04

There was a bit fairly soon after the baby was born (whoops have forgotten his name - read it a few weeks ago) where she went out wearing a dress that zipped up at the back.

And then thought that it might be hard to breast feed in. How many people manage to go out in that sort of dress that soon fter having a baby??

As you can tell, that part annoyed me

PicadillyCircus · 21/07/2004 21:05

I also found the French part a bit weird - I lost interest a bit after that...

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:05

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PicadillyCircus · 21/07/2004 21:05

I did enjoy it though - and thank you to mumsnet for letting me win a copy

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:05

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johno · 21/07/2004 21:05

hello

PicadillyCircus · 21/07/2004 21:06

She was still thinking about breastfeeding (but luckily had a bottle with her). Her midwife walked past when she was sitting on a bench feeding him.

Anyone remember the baby's name? Was it Ben?

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:08

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mummysurfer · 21/07/2004 21:10

oh, good evening, sorry i'm late, couldn't find, you, child calls, phone rings. just need a glass of wine then i'm set

mummysurfer · 21/07/2004 21:10

was it what you expectde?
i thought she was going to be a very different character to the one she turned out to be.

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:12

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mummysurfer · 21/07/2004 21:14

i thought that she was a high flying career girl who would be an organised mother. don't know why i thought that!
what about jonathon?

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:16

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mummysurfer · 21/07/2004 21:17

no i thought he would grow in character once they disappeared to france, chase, fight. but no.

johno · 21/07/2004 21:19

hello, im new to this can anyone join in?

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:20

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mummysurfer · 21/07/2004 21:20

hello johno, of course, feel free. i haven't done a book chat before

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:20

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mummysurfer · 21/07/2004 21:21

the modelling bit made me feel sick, kept htinking NOOOO don't do it

wickedstepmum · 21/07/2004 21:27

I won a copy which was fun and very gratifying but it makes me terribly guilty to say that I didn?t enjoy Babyface?the first problem for me is a personal idiosyncrasy. I don?t like novels written in the present tense. This isn?t happening now ? it happened then. But, much more importantly, I couldn?t identify with the heroine at all. There is a strange lack of emotion throughout the book. What is she really doing with this man? There isn?t a hint anywhere that she even fancies him enough to sleep with him let alone have his baby. Incidentally, he might be a bit boring but I wouldn?t mind meeting him ? he sounded a truly kind and decent man; pretty rare! Her pre-baby life is never really explained. Was she part of the magazine life or not? If she was then the baby modelling shouldn?t be such a surprise. And the trip to France was utterly incongrous. I am sorry not to like this book. It seems very unfair to criticise someone who has succeeded in having a book published ? by that very fact alone they are already a better writer than I am ? but I don?t think this is very good. Just before this one I read a couple of books by Marian Keyes which really impressed me. Her books start off as fairly shallow chick-lit and then gradually reveal more and more character and story. Excellent.

PicadillyCircus · 21/07/2004 21:28

The modelling part definitely put me off modelling

(And I like I don't know how she does it by the way )

johno · 21/07/2004 21:31

im confused help?

mummysurfer · 21/07/2004 21:31

i'm with wsm, won the book so feel i had to like it, but have to admit to being a bit disappointed. got into it fairly quickly but then it did seem to dry up. i had to make myself finish it.
didn't like the ending? was there one or did it just end?