Nine Months

by Sarah Ball, Sarah Harris

It isn't until her boyfriend Tom heads off for his year abroad that Holly realises just how much she's going to miss him. But Tom's left her with rather more than just a passionate memory of their last night together. Holly's clothes are getting tighter, she has cleavage for the first time in her life, and the sickness she thought was down to the morning-after-the-night-before is lasting all day. Holly Piper is pregnant! Suddenly thrown into an alien world of antenatal classes, stretch marks and big knickers, Holly is relieved that at least she has the support of Alice and Maggie, her two broody best friends. But what of Tom? Holly isn't even sure how she feels about him, let alone his feelings for her. And she has no way of contacting him. A year is a long time for him to be away. But for Holly, the first nine months are going to be the hardest...

Genres: Chick Lit

320 pages, Paperback

First published February 22, 2002

About the author

Also writes under Sarah Harris

Sarah is a British writer living in Cambridge with her husband and two teenagers. In her twenties she had three ‘chicklit’ novels published under her maiden name, Sarah Ball; Nine Months, Marry Me and Written in the Stars. These were published by Piatkus and relaunched as e-books by Piatkus Entice in 2012.
Her books have been published in Australia, Russia, Norway, the Czech Republic, Portugal and Serbia.

Sarah now writes YA and contemporary fiction under the name Sarah Harris. Her first YA novel, The Definition of Us is due to be published by Piatkus in July 2018.

For more information please visit www.sarahharriswriter.co.uk
or follow Sarah on Twitter @sarahharris_uk

Reviews

[Leoni Dempsey · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 star read for me overall ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was a light easy read which I enjoyed for the most part but it sadly didn’t blow me away. Some of the humour felt a little slapdash and stupid and may have been better suited to a chick flick film. Would recommend this to people who enjoy chick lit fiction but sadly not one I would read again!

[Preet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Holly is a 27-year old vegetarian chef. She's in an undefined relationship with Tom, whom she loves. Tom is about to leave for a year long trip to travel the world and Holly doesn't want him to but is unable to stop him from going. The silver lining Tom telling her he loves her the night before he leaves. Unfortunately, Holly finds out she's pregnant after Tom leaves. Fortunately, though she has great friends to help support her.

I liked the realistic view this book had about feeling ambivalent about a surprise pregnancy like Holly's. The book wasn't preachy and wasn't clear cut black and white. While I don't agree with every decision Holly made, I could understand her reasoning in most of the decisions she made. I do thin, however, that the 9 months were covered pretty quickly.

This is Sarah Ball's debut book, published in 2002. I'll definitely be keeping my eye out for her other two releases.

[Marisa Parker · Rating 3 out of 5]

An enjoyable book. Sweet, funny and not too much to think about for a light read.

[Ceh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Light read with refreshing bits of humor.

[Sian Hughes · Rating 3 out of 5]

i enjoyed this book to read whilst i am pregnant as i could relate to alot of things, i liked almost all of the characters and had a real sense of them all which i don't often get from books i usually just focus on 1 or 2 people. I loved holly the main character BUT i found how often she drank wine quite annoying and selfish didnt like to see that it was promoted to be okay to keep drinking alcohol.. but that's my personal opinion :) Nice easy read, i am pleased with the happy ending i was hoping for, let's hope i get my happy ending too!

[Jasmine P · Rating 4 out of 5]

i loved this book and her book, marry me, she just wwrites in a way i like and i counldnt put it down.

[Rach · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book, the ending was very adrenaline filled with the birth of her baby and Tom returning home.

[Susannah Plumridge · Rating 3 out of 5]

holiday read- good enough :)