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Fake Baby
Fake Baby | Amy McDaid
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Fake Baby is a tender and funny exploration of the power of words, our perception of resilience and what it means to be real. Nine Days. One City. Three Oddballs. Stephen’s dead father is threatening to destroy the world. If Stephen commits the ultimate sacrifice and throws himself into the harbour, he will save humanity. The last thing he needs is a Jehovah’s Witness masquerading as a schoolboy and an admission to a mental health facility. * Jaanvi steals a life-like doll called James and cares for him as if he were her dead baby. Her husband demands she return him. But she and James have already bonded, and it’s nobody’s business how she decides to grieve. * Lucas, pharmacist and all-round nice guy, is having one of the worst weeks of his life. His employees forgot his birthday, his mother’s gone manic, and now his favourite customer is in hospital because of a medication error he made. Can he make things right? Or is life all downhill after forty? 'A darkly funny satire that's both moving and wise.' - Paula Morris
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Fake Baby is a smart, funny, affecting debut novel. It takes some skill to be able to write a funny and affecting story about some of the real serious issues in this world. McDaid's treatment of mental illness, infant mortality, maternal health, and complex familial relationships is both thoughtful and honest. Stories like these, which remind us how much these things are a part of real life are so important in these times more than ever.

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New reads because locked down life is best managed with literature (feat. my wee Snoot)

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