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The Family Way - Tony Parsons

Description: ISBN 0007151241 / Author: Tony Parsons / Genre: Fiction / Paulo loves Jessica. He thinks that together they are complete--a family of ... more

The Family Way - Tony Parsons ... two. But Jessica can't be happy until she has a baby, and the baby stubbornly refuses to come. Can a man and a woman ever really be a family of two? Megan doesn't love her boyfriend anymore. After a one-night stand with an Australian beach bum, she finds that even a trainee doctor can slip up on the family planning. Should you bring a child into the world if you don't love its father? Cat loves her life. After bringing up her two younger sisters, all she craves is freedom. Her older boyfriend has done the family thing before and is in no rush to do it all again. But can a modern woman really find true happiness without ever being in the family way? Three sisters. Three couples. Two pregnancies. Six men and women struggling with sex, love and the meaning of family. And one more bitter-sweet bestseller from the author of Man and Boy.

Newest Review: ... and desperately wants a baby - something that she will be struggling with throughout the story. And Megan, the youngest, is ... more

... pretty much focused on developping her career as a doctor - when suddenly a one-night stand leads to her career plans being interrupted for a little while. Parson's takes the reader though these three separate story lines, intertwining them on occasion. Through the intertwining method, he clearly intends to show how strong the family bonds between the sisters really is. In addition, he throws in some other characters, all that seem to strengthen his whole notion of "family trumps all problems". We meet the ...more

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The Family Way - Tony Parsons: Intertwined and separated (1208 words)
by Delicate_Orchid1 - written on 09.12.05 (Very useful, 339 readings)
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When I realised that there was a book by Tony Parson's that I had not yet read, I was quite excited. I had very much enjoyed his previous work, especially "Man and Boy", which is an extremely well written novel insofar as it covers a topic that would normally just appeal to women in such a brilliant way that it even appealed to some of the male population. I also very much enjoyed "Man and Wife", even though it did not quite meet the standards of its predecessor. On the cover of "Family Way", the reader is promised that this new bestseller is Parson's best since "Man and Boy", so it indeed sounded like a winner to ...

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