Early thirtysomething Emma decides it�s time to have the baby - but it just doesn�t happen to order. Emma goes through a funny, touching and ultimately moving journey as she struggles to accept the reality that maybe it�s never going to happen. The Baby Trail is a novel rich in texture, light and dark, and humour with a biting undercurrent.
Emma Hamilton Séries
Cette série retrace l'histoire captivante d'une femme devenue une icône de son époque. Nous suivons son parcours, de ses humbles débuts à sa vie sous les feux des projecteurs des cours européennes. Romance, intrigues et changements de fortune s'entremêlent dans un récit historique captivant. C'est une histoire d'ambition, d'amour et de survie dans un monde dominé par des hommes puissants.
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Adopte-moi !
- 388pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Après avoir remué ciel et terre pour tenter d'avoir un enfant, Emma se décide pour une solution plus rapide, du moins le croit-elle : adopter un bébé russe. Mais elle n'est pas au bout de ses peines ! Un long chemin semé d'embûches l'attend. Son mari et elle doivent désormais prouver qu'ils seront les parents idéaux. Et ils n'imaginaient pas les travailleurs sociaux si terrifiants ni les démarches administratives si compliquées... Le jeu en vaut-il vraiment la chandelle ?
From Here to Maternity, Sinéad Moriarty's third novel, is the story tells the story of Emma Hamilton who embarks on the path to adopting a baby when she and her husband can't conceive. It manages to be both hilarious and incredibly moving and is comparable to the writing of Marian Keyes in its ability to balance light and shade in a heart-warming, thoughtful and satisfying story. Just as Emma Hamilton and her husband James become parents of an eight-month-old Russian baby, Yuri, they find out that Emma is pregnant. Which is a bit of a shock since they had come to terms with not being able to have children. Emma discovers that having her dreams come true brings a whole new set of problems as she is faced with well-meaning friends and family - and not-so-well-meaning maternity Nazis - telling her how to be a mother. Only her wonderful calm long-suffering husband, a mad family that makes her look like the down-to-earth sensible one, and fantastic friends whose lives are even crazier than her own, keep Emma from losing it, and in the end she comes through with her usual mix of humour, good-natured hysteria and real heart.
Mad About You
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Emma and James Hamilton have weathered lots of storms in their ten-year marriage. From the heartbreak of infertility, to the craziness of then becoming parents to two babies in one year, to coping with James losing his job, somehow they have always worked as a team. However, the pressure of moving from Dublin to London for James's new job - away from familiar surroundings and the family Emma loves - puts them under stress like never before. So when James starts getting texts from a stranger - texts that show startling insights into their lives - Emma is not sure what to think. She is far from home, isolated and before long finds herself questioning everything about their relationship. Maybe those texts are telling her the truth and the life she believed to be solid and secure is just a mirage. Somehow she has to get a grip, but how can she do that when a stranger is set on driving Emma out of her home and her marriage?