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http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/13039658 ( )

I enjoyed this book. Easy to read, likeable characters and a good ending. Another great from Mike Gayle. ( )

Bloke-lit in the vain of Tony Parsons or Nick Hornby. I did enjoy seeing life from the other side of the gender divide.

Dave is a music journalist, he has been with his wife for 6 years and is ecstatic when she announces she is pregnant. When Izzy miscarries and declares she doesn't want to try for another, he pretends to agree. Then the magazine he is working on, and he ends up as the new agony uncle on a teen magazine. Amongst the petitions for help, a letter arrives from a 13-year-old girl, Nicola, claiming to be his daughter.

Dave is a decent bloke, a sensitive boyfriend, but finds it difficult to rock the boat with Izzy. Izzy is not a cold woman, but after suffering a miscarriage is understandibly reluctant to try again, in case it happens again. It is their lack of communication which causes the tension, more than the arrival of Nicola.

Gayle manages to pull off a realistic family / relationship drama with flashes of humour, especially as a 30-something-year-old man struggles with working for a teen magazine. The musical references do date the book a bit, but as they are bands I remember, I liked them. ( )

It was a good, light-hearted piece of fiction. It's hard not to adore the protagonist. He is a kind and sensitive man. The end was very excellent as well. ( )

This book was one too many about babies and trying to conceive them I read over the past couple of days. I couldn't really relate to the people in the book, but I kept on reading, because frankly the main character sounds like he is the best boyfriend in the world. I'm starting to suspect that Mike Gayle, is in fact a woman.