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Single motherhood has never been so much fun.
Annie Baker's got it made-an idyllic life in the country, a part-time job in town as a freelance film producer, and a boy who's crazy about her. The only problem is, he's six years old. Featuring Annie as its frazzled but tireless heroine, Gil McNeil's endearing first novel turns chaos to poetry.
Annie doesn't remember what it feels like to be pulled in any less than seven directions at once, but that's the beauty of her life. It seems like everywhere she turns there's a crisis in the making and a man who needs fussing over--whether it's her son, Charlie, who will only eat sausages for breakfast; her high-maintenance director-boss Barney, who's constantly being attacked by his own espresso maker; the crew on her ad shoots, whose work ethics are controlled exclusively by their stomachs; or her work nemesis, Lawrence, who's simply out to get her fired. And then she meets Mack...
Funny, heartbreaking, truthful, and romantic, The Only Boy for Me is a stunning debut.
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"A deceptively light read, funny and sparkling... [and] a profoundly moving study of motherhood and true love..." (Ruth Rendell)
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Gil McNeil has worked in advertising, film, and publishing and is now a director of Hobsbawm Macaulay Communications. She lives in Kent with her son.
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- PublisherBloomsbury USA
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1582342237
- ISBN 13 9781582342238
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages288
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. From Publishers WeeklySingle mother Annie Baker knows she hasn't got it all figured out, but she thinks she's doing okay: a house in a nice town outside of Kent, a production job demanding only that she come into London a couple of days a month, lovely parents and available babysitters, several other single mother friends in the village. And she adores her six-year-old, Charlie. Who wouldn't? He's charming, precocious and adorably intelligent even when having a tantrum. Despite Charlie's cute habit of ending up in her bed each night, Annie knows what she is missing, and it shows up in the form of Mack MacDonald, high-powered ad exec. He's gorgeous, rich and tired of all those foolish, beautiful model types, of whom he says, "none of them are sexy. At all." When Charlie becomes very ill, Annie's priorities turn themselves right side up, and she resists Mack's attempt, albeit motivated by love, to convince her to relocate to be with him. While it's nice to see Annie refusing to uproot still-recovering Charlie from his familiar surroundings, the novel as a whole is just a single-mother version of the average romantic comedy. First novelist McNeil (who is a single mother and lives in Kent) is mining the vein of Helen Fielding or Nick Hornby, but she seems to have absorbed the details of humorous writing without the overarching sense of irony. Most of the amusement comes from Charlie's habits and conversations (cute bums, cute food preferences, cute comments on life) but this one-note laugh track quickly wears thin. Annie's life is pretty successful from the start, so perhaps the only irony required is McNeil's willingness to eschew the expected ending. Otherwise, single motherhood has never seemed so easy or so slow.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Product DescriptionSingle motherhood has never been so much fun.Annie Baker's got it made-an idyllic life in the country, a part-time job in town as a freelance film producer, and a boy who's crazy about her. The only problem is, he's six years old. Featuring Annie as its frazzled but tireless heroine, Gil McNeil's endearing first novel turns chaos to poetry.Annie doesn't remember what it feels like to be pulled in any less than seven directions at once, but that's the beauty of her life. It seems like everywhere she turns there's a crisis in the making and a man who needs fussing over--whether it's her son, Charlie, who will only eat sausages for breakfast; her high-maintenance director-boss Barney, who's constantly being attacked by his own espresso maker; the crew on her ad shoots, whose work ethics are controlled exclusively by their stomachs; or her work nemesis, Lawrence, who's simply out to get her fired. And then she meets Mack.Funny, heartbreaking, truthful, and romantic, The Only Boy for Me is a stunning debut.From BooklistSticky fingers and bedtime tantrums make motherhood an exhausting labor of love not suited for those lacking in perseverance and, most importantly, a sense of humor. As Annie Baker demonstrates, laughter and honesty are the keys to keeping one's sanity intact when dealing with a precocious six-year-old boy. This English "mum" puts a hilarious edge on all her dilemmas as she juggles a job in London as an advertising producer and switches gears to provide a wholesome life in the country for her son, Charlie. Whether she's on the set filming a commercial with half a dozen uncooperative St. Bernards or building a Viking ship out of a box of "Shreddies" cereal, Annie is in her element. When she meets the handsome Mack, Annie's life requires more than just a little rearranging to accommodate love and a side of herself she has pushed to the background. Without a doubt, McNeil's debut novel is crafted from a wealth of experience and is a tender tribute to motherly love and the choices that define it. Elsa GaztambideCopyright American Library Association. All rights reservedReviewA deceptively light read, funny and sparkling. Seller Inventory # DADAX1582342237
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