Just Between Friends by Rosie Nixon published by HQ Books
Aisha Moore is eight months pregnant.
She’s thrilled, and a little scared. Not least because her husband Jason hasn’t
quite wrapped his head around the fact.
Lucy is having her
first child too. She has finally got her wish – although the circumstances
aren’t quite what she had hoped. Oscar will be a great dad though, won’t he?
When the two women
join the same baby group, they quickly become friends and before long they’re
confiding in each other.
Only there’s one
thing Lucy hasn’t told Aisha. And while a baby may turn your life upside-down,
a secret this big will change everything.
I’m not going to lie – I had a horrifically
traumatic birth with my (only!) son who is now 17, and the thought of a book purely
about pregnancy, childbirth and babies filled me with dread, it was a time and
a place that I never wanted to go back to…however…I absolutely loved this book!
It’s not a story of gory birth details, it’s a tale of new friendships, new beginnings
and new life and I must admit that while I was reading it, I had so many lovely
flashback memories of holding my son for the first time, and those special
shared moments of just the two of us during night feeds.
The characters were believable,
although reading what some of the men did during pregnancy and afterwards drove
me to distraction on occasions…are there men out there who really treat women
that way? Thank god I’ve never met them!!
I would have liked Lucy to be a
little more sinister – it felt to me like the book toyed with the idea of being
a psychological thriller, but then almost scared itself so went back to be a lovely
nice story.
Would really recommend this to all
my friends though – I loved it.
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