| When You Least Expect It: A Novel |  | Author: Whitney Gaskell
Publisher: Bantam
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 12,006
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
ASIN: B0036S49ZA
Publication Date: June 17, 2010
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From the celebrated author of Good Luck and Mommy Tracked, a funny and touching novel about the call to motherhood, the complexities of adoption, and the promise and peril of parenthood
India and Jeremy Halloway are happily married, have creative careers, and live in a remodeled bohemian cottage in a historic West Palm Beach neighborhood. The only thing missing from their charmed life is the baby they both desperately want. After two years of failed fertility treatments, they are cash-strapped and no closer to parenthood. That’s when they decide it’s time to look into adoption.
Lainey Walker’s unexpected pregnancy threatens to derail her dream of moving to Los Angeles and becoming a reality-TV star. She also finds herself homeless and alone when her unsupportive gym-rat boyfriend kicks her out of their apartment.
When the Halloways and Lainey are matched up through an adoption agency, India proposes an unorthodox solution that just might solve all their problems. But as these three are about to discover, a baby changes everything.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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well written character study June 26, 2010
Harriet Klausner
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In West Palm beach, Florida, India and Jeremy Halloway love each other. Each believes their life together is perfect except for the inability to have a baby. For two years they have tried fertility treatments that have only left them financially poorer. They have given up on the enhanced natural way and opt for adoption.
Homeless twentyish Lainey Walker is pregnant with no options for herself or the baby she carries as her boyfriend Trav kicked her to the street. She meets the Halloway couple and decides they are perfect to raise her child. They give her a place to stay and pay the medical bills. All is perfect until the chaos of birth.
This is a well written character study that rotates between the three prime players; each comes across genuine and ergo makes for a strong drama. Lainey especially is terrific as she knows she will never fill the hole in her heart, but sees few other options for her unborn to have a wonderful life. Readers will appreciate When You least Expect it as the cast provides a powerful poignant look at real choices people, especially women, have.
Harriet Klausner
I had to write this review because I love this book! July 1, 2010
Erin Patin
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I would like to start by saying that this is my first review and I have bought and read many, many books from Amazon. I got this book on my Kindle and fell in love with it. I have enjoyed reading all of Whitney Gaskell's books, but this one was absolutely wonderful. I laughed, I cried, and I was left with a wonderful feeling at the end of the book. I would definitely recommend it and I can't wait for the next one!
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