Saturday morning coffee sessions are never going to be the same. . . .Sydney marketing exec Sophie presumed "making sacrifices for your children" meant giving up Bloody Marys and champagne for nine months. When she thought about it, that is. . . . But then two blue lines appear on her pregnancy test. How does a baby fit in with a hectic job, a chaotic social life, and the absence of Max, the Y chromosome in the equation, who has moved to San Francisco?Support and dubious advice are provided by an unlikely group that gathers for a weekly coffee get-together at the King Street Cafe. With Debbie the glamorous man-eater, Andrew the fitness junkie, Anna the disaster-prone doctor, and Karen the statistically improbable happily married mother of three, Sophie discovers the ups and downs of motherhood. And when an unexpected business venture and a new man appear on the scene, it appears that just maybe there is life after a baby.Written by two sisters who live on different...

Julia finally has her life just the way she wants it: great friends, her own house, a car that goes (mostly) and a promotion on the horizon. As soon as her perfect man comes along the equation will be complete.Then the phone rings. Her best friend Anita is dead and everything changes.Three days later Julia has inherited an eighteen-month-old toddler called Jack. Struggling with grief at the loss of Anita, Julia's first faltering days with her friend's son seem doomed: he'd rather spend his time with a brown plastic toad called Harold and eats nothing but fairy bread. Her life quickly unravels as she attempts to manage Jack, an obsessive client and a brother who sees himself as the next celebrity chef.But after an embarrassing incident at the gym and a run-in with an ice-cream truck, things start to improve in surprising ways. Julia begins to wonder whether Jack's arrival was not the end of the world, but an unexpected and priceless gift...

Saturday morning coffee sessions are never going to be the same. . . .Sydney marketing exec Sophie presumed "making sacrifices for your children" meant giving up Bloody Marys and champagne for nine months. When she thought about it, that is. . . . But then two blue lines appear on her pregnancy test. How does a baby fit in with a hectic job, a chaotic social life, and the absence of Max, the Y chromosome in the equation, who has moved to San Francisco?Support and dubious advice are provided by an unlikely group that gathers for a weekly coffee get-together at the King Street Cafe. With Debbie the glamorous man-eater, Andrew the fitness junkie, Anna the disaster-prone doctor, and Karen the statistically improbable happily married mother of three, Sophie discovers the ups and downs of motherhood. And when an unexpected business venture and a new man appear on the scene, it appears that just maybe there is life after a baby.Written by two sisters who live on different...

Sophie presumed 'making sacrifices for your children' meant giving up Bloody Marys and champagne for nine months. When she thought about it, that is. . .But then two blue lines appear on her pregnancy test.How does a baby fit in with a hectic job, a chaotic social life, and the absence of Max, the Y chromosome in the equation, who has moved to San Francisco? Support and dubious advice are provided by an unlikely group that gathers for a weekly coffee session at the King Street Cafe. It is with Debbie the glamorous man-eater, Andrew the fitness junkie, Anna the disaster-prone doctor and Karen the statistically improbable happily married mother of three, that Sophie discovers the ups and downs of motherhood. And when an unexpected business venture and a new man appear on the scene, it appears that just maybe there is life after a baby. Written by two sisters who live on opposite sides of the world, Sacking the Stork is a novel which tackles the balancing of...