Heidi Savage was headhunted away from BBC Radio to produce
a radio segment on another station. Now her career is on
track and life is good. A year ago, she got engaged to her
boyfriend Ed at the top of the Eiffel Tower. The wedding is
four months away, the plans are firming up and Heidi is
having serious doubts. Ed is working long hours to get his
dental surgery practice established and letting off steam
on the weekends with the guys on his rugby team. The rugby
buddies are part of the problem: Ed comes home one night
from a rugby match without his clothes, and on another
night without any facial hair, including his eyebrows. To
add to her doubts, Heidi's best friend Kate, a single mom
with a 6-month-old son, decides it's time to date again and
Heidi gets stuck babysitting. Even though Heidi's never
changed a diaper, suddenly she's holding an infant, staring
at her hairless fiancé, listening to all the other rugby
wives talk about starting families and secretly wondering
whether she even wants children of her own.
Into Heidi's radio studio saunters Steven Gabriel, the
college boyfriend who broke her heart when he left her
seven years ago. He's representing the Lone Parents
Network, and the radio interviewer quickly draws out that
he's been both married and divorced and is raising his
young daughter alone. The call-in lines are ringing off the
hook, but after the interview, it's obvious to Heidi that
Steven is still interested in her. Ed's still devoted to
rugby, Kate's got another date, Steven is sending flowers,
but no one is prepared for what will happen next,
especially not Heidi.
READY OR NOT? is a realistic story about pre-marriage and
pre-pregnancy jitters. Who hasn't wondered if a former
lover might be a better choice than the one they are about
to marry? Or looked at an exhausted new mother and wondered
whether a childless marriage isn't a more logical choice? I
loved the cheeky British slang, the friends with foibles,
the not-perfect but still adorable baby boy and Heidi's
hilarious journey as she's confronted with all of the
marriage and parenting issues she doesn't feel ready to
face yet in this funny and poignant story. READY OR NOT? is
highly recommended for anyone who's ready for British chick-
lit to start tackling marriage and motherhood.
Every bride is entitled to pre-wedding jitters, and what
reasonable girl wouldn't think twice about marriage when
her fiancé shaves off his eyebrows just in time for the
photographs? But what if the bride-to-be is really freaked
out by something else? Like, perhaps, the terrifying
notion of happily-ever-after? With her ex-boyfriend back
in the town, Heidi Savage is wondering whether she can
really forsake all others-especially for the man waiting
at the end of the aisle with no eyebrows.
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