num_pages: 320
description: Meet Emma Hamilton. She's thirty-three, has a great husband, and loves her life. It's the perfect time to start a family!Emma has it all mapped out: Go off the pill in December, have sex, get pregnant by January, have the baby in September. And with the help of a personal trainer, Emma figures she'll be back in shape by Christmas. Happy New Year! But when three months of candle-scented sex fails to produce the desired result, Emma's life becomes a rollercoaster of post-coital handstands, hormone inducing (a.k.a. sanity reducing) drugs, and a veritable army of fertility specialists. Emma and James try everything, from ovulation kits to in-vitro, but all their carefully laid plans seem to go south -- in direct proportion to Emma's plummeting self-esteem. And just when Emma feels she's alienated everyone in her life -- her twice-pregnant confidante, her singleton friend, even her own husband -- events take a ninety-degree turn that will have unforeseen consequences for everyone. With The Baby Trail Sinead Moriarty brings a wicked sense of humor to a subject of fevered concern for women today. Sizzlingly funny yet deeply moving, this novel is sure to ring true for women who can hear the tick-tock of their own biological clocks.
language: English
title: The Baby Trail
titlecomplete: The Baby Trail
characters: Lucy, Donal, Emma Hamilton (Sinéad Moriarty), James Hamilton, Barbara, Imogen
genres: Irish Literature, Ireland, Womens Fiction, Family, Fiction, Chick Lit, Humor, Contemporary, Romance
ratings_count: 2001
places: Ireland
series: Emma Hamilton
publisher: Washington Square Press