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Babycakes - Armistead Maupin

Description: ISBN 0552992399 / Author: Armistead Maupin / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... but wants to have a baby to please her husband, she has stopped taking the pill without telling him but nothing happened so ... more

... she had his sperm tested without his knowledge only to discover he is infertile and now she doesn't have a clue how to break the news. After discussing her problems with her old pregnant school pal, Connie, Mary Ann decides to tell Brian the truth, then she meets and English guy in a bar who is a slightly better looking version of her own husband. Mary Ann befriends the guy, Simon Bardill and hatches a plan in her mind. Simon is oblivious to this he has his own problems having just abandoned his Officer's post on the...more

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The Blurb The Characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales Of The City books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British Monarch, a grieving gay neighbour and an international ring of mail order brides. Armistead Maupin has written a comedy of manners for our times. The Story The story begins in a limousine in San Francisco with two characters named Elizabeth and Philip, it soon becomes apparent that this is none other than our own queen and husband visiting San Francisco . The queen ... Read the complete review

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