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In The Wee Small Hours
Gil McNeil
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
July 2005
On Sale: July 4, 2005
384 pages
ISBN: 0747579024
EAN: 9780747579021
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Women's Fiction
Life just keeps getting more complicated for Annie Baker.
Her sister Lizzie's pregnant and wants Annie to be her
birth-partner - she's planning an active labour, in water,
with lots of candles and music. Her partner Matt isn't too
sure, although he's bought some new swimming trunks just
in case. Annie's friend Leila has got a new man, Tor, and
she's getting heavily into yoga, while Kate from the
village has somehow ended up having an affair with her own
ex-husband. And as for the men in Annie's own life, it
just gets worse. Her seven-year-old son Charlie is now
officially Pagan, and desperate for his own pet pheasant.
Boss Barney is building a bit of a reputation for TV
commercials involving stunts, so if she's not lurching
around the North Sea in a trawler, she's stuck up a crane.
Then there's Uncle Monty to keep an eye on, a retired mole-
catcher who collects bric-a-brac. He's eighty-three and a
few sandwiches short of a picnic, and has just threatened
the Meals on Wheels lady with a shotgun and refuses to
leave the farm where he's lived all his life. And as if
all that wasn't difficult enough, Mack comes back from New
York, just when Annie was beginning to think she might be
able to cope without him ... For everyone who fell in love
with Annie Baker and her Only Boy for Me, here's what
happened next. And for anyone who's ever wondered how to
combine motherhood, the country life and a career in town,
and why pheasants make that weird clicking noise, this is
essential reading.
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