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Amazon.co.uk Review
To have a baby or not to have a baby, that is the question that's facing Jane Green's heroines in her fifth novel, Babyville. Julia, Maeve and Sam are pondering the pros and cons of procreation; the effect that it could have on their careers, partners and lives.
The novel opens with Julia, a successful TV producer, with her legs straight up in the air, encouraging her boyfriend Mark's sperm to reach their destination. Julia thinks she wants a baby to fill the huge gap that has suddenly appeared in her life. But Mark thinks:

We don't make love anymore. We make babies. And we're failing.
Maeve, who also works in TV, is adamant that she doesn't want a baby or a relationship; she's happy as a single, ambitious, career girl: "The togetherness. The cosiness. That coupledom that is pure anathema to me." But she finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand and finds that her preconceptions turn out to be misconceptions. And finally there is Sam; voluptuously, glowingly pregnant at the beginning of the book, but near the end screaming at her beloved partner Chris: "You haven't been stuck in all day with a screaming baby. You have absolutely no idea what it's like for me." Chris feels "neglected. Abandoned . Unwanted."
Babyville is played out in the present tense, with a staccato style delivery, with beats of humour between the emotional labour. The emotions may be powerful and universal, but the prose style may need a longer fermentation period.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I left this book on the table in the entrance to Sturtridge ward (the labour ward!) at around 7.30pm on Monday 1st March.

Hope someone picks this themed release book up :-)

I caught babyville in labour ward reception at northampton general when i took my 4 week old baby back to get his photo taken. The book was enjoyable to read and having just had a baby i could relate to it in lots of places, some of it was a bit far fetched though!! I plan to release the book a bit further afield to get it started on its travels around the uk and perhaps the world!

Released Babyville on Saturday 24th April in the baby change room in the Harvester on Frenchay Park Road, Bristol.