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  • Paperback: 544 pages
  • Publisher: Piatkus Books (18 Aug 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0749930306
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749930301
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Bump number one - Just when Taz Norton's life is on a smooth upward glide - youngest sales manager at a flagship department store, own flat, cat and vintage motorbike - her lover leaves her for her ex-best friend. Bump number two - is finding out she is pregnant the same day she is asked to handle the biggest store promotion in the company's history. Bump number three - is the one in front of her. Goodbye toes and glamour, hello heartburn, morning sickness and support tights. Typically, Taz decides to be Superwoman. No one is going to tell her she can't get to the top and be a single mum as well. But no one told her it was going to be so damned hard...

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Zoe Barnes' varied career has included stints as a hearing-aid technician, shorthand teacher, French translator, and the worst accounts clerk in the entire world. When not writing her own novels, she translates other people's and also works as a semi-professional singer.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Pregnancy Reading!, 12 Feb 2001
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Being four months pregnant myself, I found it so refreshing to read a novel about the ups and downs, written with such humour and insight. I literally laughed and cried, and felt every joy and pain along with Taz.

The personal relationships which Taz built through the book reflect those that we all build - from the everlasting to the casual and transient. Not forgetting of course all the trials and tribulations of being part of a family, and having a mother who knows best!

All in all an excellent read, I would recommend to anyone.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Pregnant Woman's Guide to Managing Your Career, 23 May 2000
Thank goodness for Zoe Barnes! An intelligent and assertive career driven young woman, Taz, is the protagonist of this fantastic novel. Taz is dumped by her boyfriend who is having an affair with her flat mate, and then discovers she is pregnant.

The novel was fresh and exciting because of the descriptions of Taz's career in RETAIL! Not journalism or publishing. Thank you Zoe Barnes for realising we aren't all in journalism working for a women's magazine. But readers have ordinary lives. This was great as I could relate to the competition, and understand the problems experienced by Taz in a cut throat organisation.

My favourite character was Mandy who was not a stereotype problem teenager, but conveyed the hardships experienced in a poor neighbourhood. I hope that the author takes "Mandy" on to adulthood and gives us further insight into this intelligent, hard working and determined young mother.

Bumps was a fascinating page turner. I sat on the settee and read all weekend until I had finished. And I've been won over, and I shall definitely read "Hitched" and "Hot Property".

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Motherhood and a career - terrific book!, 7 Jan 2001
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This review is from: Bumps (Hardcover)
Take a bow Zoe Barnes for having successfully captured the angst and joy of juggling motherhood and a career. The writing is wry and clever and winsome. This is a thoroughly delightful read and upon completion I promptly bought copies of everything else Zoe Barnes has written. She ranks right up there with Madeleine Wickham, Catherine Alliot, Marion Keyes, and Jill Mansell!

BUMPS is highly recommended by this reader!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A womb-derfull read!
I'm currently pregnant myself and searching around for chick lit authors who understand the realities and strangeness of being an expectant Mum can be hard to find; however Zoe... Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2007 by Bookwormjo

4.0 out of 5 stars A funny pleasent read
I did enjoy this book and as a mum myself could identify with alot (but not everything) that she said, its a great escapism book with some touching moments in there.
Published on 22 Dec 2005

5.0 out of 5 stars A really enjoyable raed
Bumps is a great follow up to the first novel of this series (Hitched). A single mum coping with a career, love life, friends and awful mother! Read more
Published on 20 Dec 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book, which I thoroughly enjoyed
Having read Hot Property, I just had to go out and buy the other two Zoe Barnes books. Bumps is funny in places; it has a fairly predictable ending, but was still well worth... Read more
Published on 5 Sep 1999

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