Summary
Emily Griffin: No Children, Please
Claudia Parr has vowed her whole life to boyfriends, curious friends, concerned family and everyone else that she absolutely never wants to have a child at any cost, under any circumstances. And when she found an editorial job that she adores, organized her life in Manhattan in a way that suits her and married Ben, with whom she shares everything, including her dislike for children, Claudia became convinced that she got everything she ever wanted from life.
And then Ben had to take a keen interest in a married couple of their friends who had just started expecting a baby. And then Ben really had to start having second thoughts about their firm premarital decision to see old age as a family of two. And then Ben really had to ruin everything - and not only Ben, but also Claudia's sister Maura, who is constantly being cheated on by her husband, and Daphne, who is trying to get pregnant as best she can, not to mention her best friend Jess, who might be carrying her married lover's child...
"No Children, Please" is a humorous novel, unexpected in all the right places, devoid of clichés, and full of easy answers to difficult questions such as motherhood and faithfulness - as can be expected from one of the most popular masters of American women's letters.
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