Amy Stokes is celebrating her thirty- ninth Birthday. Well
maybe "celebrating" is not the right term. She is realizing
that she has become the picture of mundane. Sure, she is
highly successful in business -- a business that surrounds
children, but she herself wants nothing to do with the
little monsters. All of her circle of close friends have
gone "ga -- ga" for the nasty creatures and are trying to
single-handedly populate London. She just doesn't get it.
Her biological clock may be ticking, but her maternal one
doesn't exists. That is until fate takes its toll.
Amy runs over her beloved dog. Magpies are signaling to her,
and if that is not enough, she finds an abandoned baby on
the doorsteps of her shop. The good doctor examining the
baby, Joe Nencini, is a jerk, but a gorgeous one. Everything
blends together to find Amy wanting one of those little
creatures for her very own. There is just one problem. She
has no husband, make that no date at all. Joe is cute
enough, but he was wearing a wedding ring and has two
horrible children. The only logical thing left to do then
would be to get a man per month to shag.
Problem after problem arises when its that time. What is
wrong with her -- she used to be able to get any man she
wanted. Now the man she likes doesn't fit the bill for a
variety of reasons, and the man she needs doesn't seem to
exist. What's a girl got to do to get pregnant these days?
Jackie Clune's MAN OF THE MONTH has a definite British
overtone. The colloquialism, at times, makes the reader have
to stop and think about what is being said. Ms. Clune does a
very good job, however, of transforming the main character
from a cynical single into a very winsome woman. The humor
is decidedly British, but the plot is universally amusing.
Have fun reading this one.
A funny, edgy novel about having it all-when timing is
everything.
Amy Stokes has made a fortune from
luxury baby products: not bad for someone who doesn't
particularly like or want kids. She'd rather stay out late
with friends and spend her money on the fabulous
life-designer clothes, a convertible, a chic apartment with
a roof garden. Then Amy turns 39 and, after years of utter
silence, her biological clock starts ticking-loudly. There's
just one thing missing-a man.
Applying the same
entrepreneurial can-do spirit that's always worked for her
in the past, Amy gives herself a year to find an acceptable
guy to knock her up, and embarks on a merry-go-round of
potential winners and losers she dubs "the man of the month
club." But finding a father for her child may not be quite
as easy as creating a business plan.
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