Babyville by Jane Green
Babyville by Jane Green
Started: 13 February 2010
Finished: 18 February 2010
Summary:
Julia and Mark are stuck in a loveless relationship. Julia thinks a baby will help, but perhaps that isn’t the answer to her problems…
Maeve is totally allergic to commitment – she breaks out in a rash whenever she passes a buggy. A one-night stand results in an unwanted pregnancy, but just how unwanted is it?
Samantha is besotted with her baby. But how is Chris, her husband, coping with his suddenly unavailable wife, and is Samantha’s obsession as healthy as it seems?
Babyville isn’t a story about babies, it’s about people. About their relationships and the effect that children, or lack of them, can have on their lives.
Summary taken from Penguin (came from the back of the book)
My Review:
Not everything I read in 2010 will be a great choice, as evidenced by the first book on my list. Sometimes I feel like chowing down on a story without wanting to change the world. For some reason, Babyville is one of my favourites of Jane Green’s books. From a feminist’s point of view, it bugs me that everything is fixed for Maeve by a baby and a boyfriend, but as a person who enjoys a good romance now and then, it does the job and puts a smile on face. After all, this is the chick-lit genre, it’s not about Grrl Power and all that stuff, it’s about putting a smile on someone’s face and letting them escape for awhile. I just wish she’d let her characters have jobs outside of the media, most of them are TV producers, not just in this book, but all. I know, I know, write what you know, but jobs are so bloody irrelevant in these books it really wouldn’t be much of a stretch to put them in another career path. Just for a quick change.
The girl who codes. The smug little know-it-all. The nasty girl who has grown out of her fandoms, but is too selfish to give up the sites. The girl who wants to be a writer of teen fiction - but not fucking vampires.