Man of the Month Club

by Jackie Clune

Overview

A funny, edgy novel about having it all-when timing is everything.

Amy Stokes has made a fortune from luxury baby products: not bad for someone who doesn't particularly like or want kids. She'd rather stay out late with friends and spend her money on the fabulous life-designer clothes, a convertible, a chic apartment with a roof garden. Then Amy turns 39 and, after years of utter silence, her biological clock starts ticking-loudly. There's just one thing missing-a man.

Applying the same entrepreneurial can-do spirit that's always worked for her in the past, Amy gives herself a year to find an acceptable guy to knock her up, and embarks on a merry-go-round of potential winners and losers she dubs "the man of the month club." But finding a father for her child may not be quite as easy as creating a business plan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425215579
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/07/2007
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.22(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 - 17 Years

About the Author

Jackie Clune is an author, actress, a stand-up comedian and a regular radio broadcaster.

Editorial Reviews

A London boutique owner on the cusp of turning 40 finds herself seized by the maternal instinct in British actress Clune's sarcastic, forced debut. Every year, Amy Stokes's motley group of friends throws a birthday party for her, although this year, the owner of Precious Little Darlings, Amy's successful "baby kitsch" store in Chelsea, is feeling desperate at age 39. Despite making good money, and having become "the darling of the chattering breeding classes," Amy wonders: Where is her adult life? And where are her children, when all her friends are getting pregnant? Events transpire to tenderize Amy to become a mother: She accidentally runs over her own sweet dog, Germaine, and, while tottering home from the pub one night, finds a week-old baby left crying in a bin outside her apartment. But the novel's plot does not pivot on the abandoned infant. In proper chick-lit fashion, it is propelled by Amy's need to find a qualified sire, and, over the course of several months, she decides to sleep with a different, suitable man at ovulation time. Briefly, an attraction is sparked for the widowed OBGYN she meets at the hospital where she takes the infant to be checked and identified, although Joe has two frolicsome twin daughters, and Joe and Amy's dates are awkward. In the meantime, Amy attends a Mensa singles mixer because she imagines she'll find there a brilliant mind to be her child's father. Instead, at her favorite Wheelbarrow pub, she lusts after a courier with a great body, Stu, though he doesn't show up for the actual date. Next, there is a handsome father she meets in the park, whose passel of children harass Amy on their first dinner at his house. . . . At last, Joe reappearsin her shop-did we ever doubt him?Clune turns every predicable cliche possible, but it's a mildly entertaining read, with a dollop of British appeal.

Kirkus Reviews