Sarah Bilston
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Sarah Bilston is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer at Yale University.
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- female
- Woonplaatsen
- England, UK
Connecticut, USA - Opleiding
- University College London
University of Oxford - Beroepen
- Associate Professor of English, Trinity College
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Total bed rest for the last three months of pregnancy sounds like a boring premise for a novel, but for Quinn "Q" a young British lawyer married to an American lawyer and living in Manhattan it is anything but - lots of fun with some serious moments. Great on audio with the British accent.
This is Bilston's first novel. It was an okay read. I looked forward to it and was disappointed. It wasn't very fast paced or enticing to read. Not a page turner. You won't feel bad if you skip this one.
Quinn Boothroyd, expat Brit married to American lawyer Tom and currently pregnant with their first child, discovers a major glitch in the pregnancy (besides the fact that her and Tom's high-stress life is going to be impossible once the baby arrives): low amniotic fluid. If the baby is to survive, Q has to stay lying down on her left side for the next thirteen weeks.
As a woman once diagnosed with placenta previa during her first pregnancy (I recall the doctor talking about blood "literally pouring off the table" if things went wrong) and also sentenced to bed rest, I empathized with Q's bed-rest trials: the very phrase, "bed rest" begins to seem Orwellian as your mental health goes south, your intense boredom creates massive stress, and your social life becomes non-existent. Bilston manages to make all this quite amusing, while guiding Q through resolution of her less-than-sisterly feelings for her sisters, her deteriorating relationship with Tom, and the legal case of the downstairs tenants which Q takes on to while away her hours. I was a bit surprised by how dark things got before the dawn, but I did enjoy it - the problem of Brianna and her married lover was actually awfully funny. How about a sequel, Sarah Bilston? This is the right kind of book for a sequel.… (meer)
As a woman once diagnosed with placenta previa during her first pregnancy (I recall the doctor talking about blood "literally pouring off the table" if things went wrong) and also sentenced to bed rest, I empathized with Q's bed-rest trials: the very phrase, "bed rest" begins to seem Orwellian as your mental health goes south, your intense boredom creates massive stress, and your social life becomes non-existent. Bilston manages to make all this quite amusing, while guiding Q through resolution of her less-than-sisterly feelings for her sisters, her deteriorating relationship with Tom, and the legal case of the downstairs tenants which Q takes on to while away her hours. I was a bit surprised by how dark things got before the dawn, but I did enjoy it - the problem of Brianna and her married lover was actually awfully funny. How about a sequel, Sarah Bilston? This is the right kind of book for a sequel.… (meer)
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- 8
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- 246
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- #92,613
- Waardering
- 3.2
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- 12
- ISBNs
- 33
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- 6
There's a maternal neighbor, a mother who flies in from jolly old England, and then there's the husband, who is driven as crazy as the pregnant one. I was laughing throughout most of the book, and that's a very good sign.
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