Reviewed by Victoria Stone
Sometimes, the hardest part of becoming a parent is keeping a straight face...
Just ask Jamie and Laura Newman, who (thanks to a rather relaxed attitude to contraception) find themselves about to have a baby. It's obviously a terrifying prospect for a newly married couple, but as long as they stick together they'll be just fine... right?
They'd better because the path between falling in love and those first few baby steps is littered with obstacles. Featuring a hilarious cast of characters including an overbearing mother-in-law, a terrifying midwife and at least one chorus of mating humpback whales, Love... And Sleepless Nights is the hilarious follow-up novel all about what happens beyond the happy ever after.
Falling in love with another person is easy, making a new one is where things get complicated.
Sometimes, the hardest part of becoming a parent is keeping a straight face...Just ask Jamie and Laura Newman, who (thanks to a rather relaxed attitude to contraception) find themselves about to have a baby. It's obviously a terrifying prospect for a newly married couple, but as long as they stick together they'll be just fine... right?
They'd better because the path between falling in love and those first few baby steps is littered with obstacles. Featuring a hilarious cast of characters including an overbearing mother-in-law, a terrifying midwife and at least one chorus of mating humpback whales, Love... And Sleepless Nights is the hilarious follow-up novel all about what happens beyond the happy ever after.
Falling in love with another person is easy, making a new one is where things get complicated.
So
this is the sequel to 'Love From Both Sides' here we follow Jamie and
Laura's individual perspectives through pregnancy and childbirth right
up to their baby Poppy's first birthday.
Laura
is dealing with hormones, sickness and exhaustion and poor Jamie is
getting a pretty rough time of it too, As Laura's mood swings are out of
control. What we have come to expect from this loveable couple is that
they attract bad luck like you wouldn't believe.
Which lead to a hilarious, emotional and painfully honest account of having children.
Yet
again Nick Spalding managed to make me laugh until my sides hurt and I
had tears running down my face. The camping scenario causing me to stop
breathing from laughter. Not only did I laugh I got quite emotional too. That is down to the sheer brilliance of Spalding's writing.
Beneath the laughter is yet again a remarkable story of a couple who are genuinely in love.
I really look forward to any more Jamie and Laura books. I'm now off to order every book that Nick Spalding has written.
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