Baby Come Back

by Maeve Haran

Molly Meredith is happy with her lot in life. She has a thoughtful, considerate husband in Joe, a house spectacularly decorated with her creative curtain making skills, and a gorgeous baby son, Eddie, who is considered cute and adorable by absolutely everyone he meets. Everyone, that is, except his father. For Joe has never come to terms with the fact that he has been adopted, and the arrival of his son just serves to rekindle painful memories. His reaction is to shut him out, and pretend that Eddie doesn't exist. Molly is understandably upset but is equally determined to do something about it. The key to their happiness, she decides, is the woman who gave him away all those years ago. When Molly finally tracks her down, she is shocked to discover who Joe's mother really is. Stella Milton is the intellectual sexpot of the British stage, an actress whose picture has adorned many an adolescent boy's bedroom. Joe is overjoyed at finally being acquainted, and for a while it seems that Molly's plan has worked. But then Joe starts spending more and more time with his mother, and less and less with his wife and son.

Genres: Chick Lit, Fiction, Romance

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Maeve Haran is an Oxford Law graduate who worked in journalism and television before writing her first novel, Having It All, a worldwide bestseller translated into 26 languages and shortlisted for
the Romantic Novel of the Year. She wrote twelve more contemporary novels, one work of non-fiction, and two historical novels.

Her new book In the Summertime is due out on June 8.

She has grown-up three children and lives in North London.

Reviews

[Ly Leek · Rating 2 out of 5]

2022 on alanud lugemise mõttes väga laugelt ja leigelt. Loetud raamat tuli kaasa ühe hooldekodu raamaturiiulist ja täna sain ta südamerahus sinna tagastada.
Kui millegiga raamatut kirjledada, siis ... see oli nagu pika päeva vitriinis seisnud muhvin, millel sulanud kakaovõõp ja marmelaaditükk kaunistuseks. Ei meeldinud. Molly oli hea karakteristikaga peategelane, aga teema ei tõmmanud käima (lugema). Selline tunne, et lugesin kellegi ümberjutustust. Oleks palju põnevamaks saanud selle loo kirjutada.
Juba vale aeg - südatalv - sellise imalamaigulise naisteka lugemiseks.
Aga no jah - tööelus praegu sellised tuurid peal, et ei suuda "raskemaid" romaane lugeda.
Hea, et sellegagi ühele poole sain.

[Georgina Abbotts · Rating 4 out of 5]

Molly and Joe and their baby son are one happy family.there is only one thing that could cloud their happiness.Joe was adopted and still doesn't know who his biological parents are.this distresses joe.my friend recommended this book I hadn't heard of Maeve haran before there are so many new authors out there and I'm really looking forward to reading more authors that I haven't heard or read before.i think Joe's adoptive mum could have been more supportive and sympathetic but I guess some people aren't lucky to have family who are supportive.i did feel sorry for the adoptive parents as they had raised Joe as if he was there own flesh and blood it must have been so difficult for the adoptive parents to come to terms with Joe wanting to find out about his biological mum

[Ragne Rämmal-Orason · Rating 3 out of 5]

Molly on noor õnnelik ema, abielus oma kena kursusekaaslase Joega. Ühel päeval tuleb aga adopteeritud Joele mõte oma tõeline ema üles otsida ning toimekas ja energiline Molly otsustab oma abikaasat selles aidata. Selgub, et mehe pärisema on Stella Milton, imekaunis filmitäht, kes näeb 45-aastaselt parem välja, kui Molly kahekümneviieselt. Kui Stella äsjaleitud poega üha kaugemale oma glamuuri, sära ja kuulsuse maailma kaasa kisub, taipab Molly äkki, et tal tuleb uue ämmaga oma mehe pärast võitlusse asuda.

Minu kommentaar: Väga kerge lugemine. Lugesin raamatu mõne päevaga läbi. Lugu hargnes kiiresti, aga ka üsna etteaimatavalt. Plusspunktid loo viimistletud lõpu eest- laitmatult, ehk ka natuke liiga korrektselt, lõpetatud lugu.

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mildly entertaining chicklit.

[Vera Loy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this one :)

[Sarah Goodfield · Rating 3 out of 5]

Molly helps her husband find his birth mother, but it doesn't quite go to plan. I didn't enjoy this one as much as some of her others. The characters were not quite believable.

[Nikki Blanche Koelensmid · Rating 4 out of 5]

Leuke chicklit, erg makkelijk en simpel geschreven wel

[Karschtl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Molly and Joe and her little baby son are one happy family. There is only one thing that cloud their happyness: Joe was adopted and still doesn't know who is birth mother is - something that distresses him.

Molly wants to do him a favour and starts searching for this long lost mother - and is succesful. Joe's mother is the famous actress Stella Milton. Surprisingly she is very happy about the reunion with her son after 25 years and claims her place in his life. Something Molly isn't too happy about, 'cause now Joe doesn't have time for his own family anymore.

The story is likable, well written and nice chick-lit. But since I'm a very critic reader there are some (negative) things that took my attention.
* Stella was 24 when she gave Joe away; he is now 25 but she only 47!
* one reason why she gave him away was that she wanted to play a naked Julia - but after a pregnancy every woman (even the skinny ones) has a belly that does not disappear overnight or after only 3 weeks.
* Stellas old name was Amanda Lewis, but her mother's name is Beatrice Manners (so Lewis is not her maiden name) - when Molly meets an Anthony Lewis who knows Amanda she does not make the connection between their last names!! How stupid is that?

Was made into a German TV-movie (didn't watch it as they are usually very 'cheap')

[Yang Shu-yuan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Molly Meredith, hübsch, energisch und glücklich verheiratet, versucht ihrem Mann Jack nach der Geburt des gemeinsamen Babys aus dessen Sinnkrise zu helfen - und tritt damit eine Lawine ungeahnter Tragweite los ... Was ist nur mit meinem Mann los? Das fragt sich die hübsche und energische Molly Meredith, denn eigentlich führte sie bis jetzt eine glückliche Ehe. Doch Joe scheint seit der Geburt ihres gemeinsamen Sohnes Eddie vor einem halben Jahr von mysteriöser Schwermut befallen zu sein. Und endlich findet Molly den Grund dafür heraus: Joe wurde als Kind adoptiert und möchte nun endlich seine leibliche Mutter kennen lernen. Überglücklich, einer Ehekrise entgangen zu sein, kommt Molly auf die glorreiche Idee, die Unbekannte auf eigene Faust ausfindig zu machen. Ein verhängnisvoller Entschluss. Denn Joes Adoptivmutter ist empört über die drohende 'Konkurrenz' und steht kurz vorm Durchdrehen. Darüberhinaus entpuppt sich Joes leibliche Mutter dann als eine etwas in die Jahre gekommene Schauspielerin und Sexbombe mit sehr plötzlichen und höchst zweifelhaften Mutterinstinkten

[Tania · Rating 3 out of 5]

quotes#589335 Baby come back

But Molly Meredith wasn't the type to collapse for long. Looking on the bright side was her religion. If God had sent her a plague of locusts, Molly would have decided they were good for greenfly. p216

In the end, given that it was another glorious summer's day, she chose white linen trousers and a loose, flowing white silk top with a deep V, plus wildly expensive white trainers that had as much relationship to real running shoes as a Jaguar car has to the furry thing you find in the jungle. p155

[Lindsay · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quick and light read.

[Tara · Rating 2 out of 5]

YUCK! It was not so bad that I would have ditched it, but it was highly predictable.

[Robyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Totally predictable ending, but a light chick-lit novel.