NEW RELEASE
The Baby Planner - Josie Brown (2011)
Katie Johnson has just lost her government safety and product recall job. She makes a detailed step-by-step pregnancy book for her newly pregnant sister - including the safest products, furniture, and clothes on the market - and realises her talent could be profitable. Katie becomes an instant pregnancy guru in San Francisco. Her website becomes the "go-to" website for expectant mums, and Katie finally finds a career she loves. There's only one problem - Katie, 37, is longing for a child but her husband Adam doesn't want children. Each time Katie approaches the subject with him, he puts it off, and Katie isn't sure what's more important to her anymore - having a baby or being married to Adam. Things get a bit more complicated when Katie becomes attached to her most desperate client, Seth Harris' daughter Sadie. Katie has some serious decisions to make. When I started reading this book I was sure I knew the ending but I was so so wrong. I read it in one day and I loved every page. (AV)
The latest novel from Josie Brown, The Baby Planner, is about a woman who runs San Francisco's premier baby planning company - but her own husband doesn't want to have kids. The summary says: "Katie Johnson may make her living consulting with new mums on the latest greatest baby gadgets no parent should be without, or which mummy meet-ups are the most socially desirable, or whether melon truly is the new black, but the success of her marriage to her husband, Alex, depends on controlling her own urges towards motherhood. He's adamant that they stay childless. Sure, Katie understands that he's upset over the fact that his out-of-town ex-wife rarely lets him see their 10-year-old son, Peter. But living vicariously through her anxious clients and her twin sisters' precocious children only makes Katie resent his stance more deeply. While helping a new client - Seth Harris, a high-tech entrepreneur who must raise Sadie, his newborn daughter, as a single parent after the tragic death of his wife in childbirth - manoeuvre the bittersweet journey from mourning husband and reticent father to loving dad, Katie realises that life, love, and families are precious gifts . . . ones that can't always be planned." The Baby Planner is out in April.