Title: Watermelon
First published: July 22, 1999
Description: February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a postpartum body that she can hardly bear to look at. She decides to go home to Dublin. And there, sheltered by the love of a quirky family, she gets better. So much so, in fact, that when James slithers back into her life, he's in for a bit of a surprise.
Subjects: Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Single mothers, Runaway husbands, Infants (Newborn), Newborn infants, Single women, Female friendship, English fiction, Divorced mothers, Irish authors, Mothers and daughters -- Fiction, Divorced mothers -- Fiction, Ireland -- Fiction, Fiction, family life, Dublin (ireland), fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Single women, fiction, Fiction, women, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, humorous, Marriage, Families, Sisters, Domestic fiction
Places: Ireland, Dublin (Ireland)
Time periods: 20th century