- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Sphere (1 Mar 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1847440126
- ISBN-13: 978-1847440129
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 14.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,169,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sarah Bilston has written a very clear-sighted novel about how tough it is for women to juggle career, marriage and childbirth- I laughed out loud and I couldn't put it down (Marian Keyes )
Even if you've never been pregnant you'll be as instantly hooked on this addictive novel as I was. While most of us dream of days on end in bed with nothing to do but eat and watch television, Q shows us the true nature of being a caged animal (Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes )
Every woman out there juggling with career, marriage and childbirth will love every rib-tickling minute of this story (Peterborough Evening Telegraph )
You'll laugh out loud at this novel (Bella )
Even if you've never been pregnant you'll be as instantly hooked on this addictive novel as I was. While most of us dream of days on end in bed with nothing to do but eat and watch television, Q shows us the true nature of being a caged animal (Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes )
Every woman out there juggling with career, marriage and childbirth will love every rib-tickling minute of this story (Peterborough Evening Telegraph )
You'll laugh out loud at this novel (Bella )
Plum Sykes, author of Bergdoff Blondes
`Even if you've never been pregnant you'll be as instantly hooked on this
addictive novel as I was. While most of us dream of days on end in bed with
nothing to do but eat and watch television, Q shows us the true nature of
being a caged animal'
addictive novel as I was. While most of us dream of days on end in bed with
nothing to do but eat and watch television, Q shows us the true nature of
being a caged animal'
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
There is more to Sara Bilston's 'BED REST' than meets the eye. On the surface it is a witty tale of a woman ordered to be on bed rest for the remaining 15 weeks of her pregnancy. Quinn, or Q as she is affectionately called, decides to write a diary about her weeks on bed rest for her child to read one day but as bed rest starts to take it's toll, Q soon realizes that her life may not be the perfect life within which to raise a child.
Q and husband Tom seem to have it all. They are both high powered corporate attorneys with a small but great NY apartment who are both crazy about each other...that is when they actually get to see each other. After a rare passion filled evening, Q finds herself pregnant and thrilled but when she finds out that her amniotic fluid is low and she must be on bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy she is obviously scared to death. However, during her time on bed rest (which is no easy feat for someone used to the hustle-and-bustle of life as New York City attorney) Q soon realizes a few things about her life. Her job is not all that it is cracked up to be, her family may be a bit more misunderstood than she imagined and most earth shatteringly that her marriage may not be as solid as she's once imagined. Workaholic Tom doesn't seem to have any time for her so what is going to happen when the baby arrives?
`BED REST' does not have the usual chick-lit clichés such as the doting husband the quirky friend or Q trying to scheme her way out of the bed every time you turn around. This is an honest take on life, the effects of a new baby on a marriage and the real life scares of a high risk pregnancy. This novel all though dragging at times was overall a fun read and certainly not predictable! 31/2 stars!
Q and husband Tom seem to have it all. They are both high powered corporate attorneys with a small but great NY apartment who are both crazy about each other...that is when they actually get to see each other. After a rare passion filled evening, Q finds herself pregnant and thrilled but when she finds out that her amniotic fluid is low and she must be on bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy she is obviously scared to death. However, during her time on bed rest (which is no easy feat for someone used to the hustle-and-bustle of life as New York City attorney) Q soon realizes a few things about her life. Her job is not all that it is cracked up to be, her family may be a bit more misunderstood than she imagined and most earth shatteringly that her marriage may not be as solid as she's once imagined. Workaholic Tom doesn't seem to have any time for her so what is going to happen when the baby arrives?
`BED REST' does not have the usual chick-lit clichés such as the doting husband the quirky friend or Q trying to scheme her way out of the bed every time you turn around. This is an honest take on life, the effects of a new baby on a marriage and the real life scares of a high risk pregnancy. This novel all though dragging at times was overall a fun read and certainly not predictable! 31/2 stars!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a great book to read if you fancy something fairly easygoing and lighthearted. Not very 'substantial', but a good read all the same!
Format:Paperback
A more literary treatment of the idea would have made this book incredibly interesting - the elements are there, including the witty repartee, for an Austenian novel of modern manners, but the book is too thin (both physically and in content), and the central character is lifeless and poorly written. I had no impression of her at all visually, and certainly a sense of her as a cardboard cutout.
The redeeming experience of birth is overplayed, and it was the fatal blow to a weak, but promising first novel.
The redeeming experience of birth is overplayed, and it was the fatal blow to a weak, but promising first novel.
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