When You Least Expect It
A Novel
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Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A 30-something science fiction writer and his photographer wife endure the rigors of adoption in Gaskell s latest easy-gaited look at contemporary women s lives (after Mommy Tracked). Following more fertility treatments than they can afford, India and Jeremy Halloway plunge into the treacherous process of adoption. Through an attorney, the couple meet Lainey Walker, a manicurist who hopes to find fame on reality TV once she deals with her inconvenient pregnancy. After she moves into the Halloways guest house, an uneasy friendship ensues, while India and Jeremy juggle finances, their relationship, helpful friends, and sometimes less-than-helpful relatives. Gaskell walks her likably vanilla characters through the required emotional paces, and while the story won t win an award for originality, it s competently done and appropriately affirmative.
