Love Reads!

Leah McLaren

April 2007

Warner 5-spot

ISBN-10: 0446699594

ISBN-13: 9780446699594

Meredith Moore is the most organized person you will ever meet, which makes her job as a continuity girl the perfect career. Recently though, something has come along that was never a part of her plan ……….. the biological need to have a baby.

At the beginning of the story we find Meredith working on her latest movie working with an insufferable director who changes his mind more then most people change clothes. After a very callus exchange of words she decides enough is enough just gets up and leaves into the great unknown that is unemployment. Her mother a hippie poet comes to her rescue and sets her up to be the continuity girl that a friend of hers has put in production. This is not just any friend; it is the Donald Trump of this story, a man by the name of Osmund Crouch, whom she has always had a connection to but never exactly understood why. Meredith packs her bags and moves to London into her mothers flat for the duration of filming.

Also on her mind around the same time as her becoming unemployed is the fact that she is getting older and yearning to have a child of her own. Her recent doctors visit to check on the freshness of her eggs further sends her into a worrying abyss when she finds out things have started to go downhill.

Will this movie put her back on top? Will she ever find someone suitable enough to be her sperm donor? Why is that one doctor she met showing up everywhere?!

This story is a good one, though maybe a little exaggerated at times and stays appealing throughout. A lot of people no matter what their age can relate to balancing your work life and every other one in between.

4 out of 5

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