Shopaholic and Baby

becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) Is Pregnant! She Couldn T Be More Overjoyed Especially Since Discovering That Shopping Cures Morning Sickness. Everything Has Got To Be Perfect For Her Baby: From The Designer Nursery . . . To The Latest, Coolest Pram . . . To The Celebrity, Must-have Obstetrician.

but When The Celebrity Obstetrician Turns Out To Be Her Husband Luke S Glamorous, Intellectual Ex-girlfriend, Becky's Perfect World Starts To Crumble. She S Shopping For Two . . . But Are There Three In Her Marriage?

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hail The Return Of Kinsella's Airhead Heroine, Becky Bloomwood, Now Married, Pregnant And Working As The Head Personal Shopper For A Brand-new London Boutique. In This Latest Installment Of The Shopaholic Franchise (shopaholic Ties The Knot; Shopaholic Takes Manhattan; Etc.), The Commercially Insatiable Bex Shops For Two In Every Upscale Baby Shop And Catalogue In London, Snags A Celebrity Ob/gyn And Leverages A Pair Of The Moment's Most Coveted Boots To Negotiate A Home Purchase. Complicating An Otherwise Uneventful Pregnancy, Becky Suspects Her Husband, Pr Biz-wiz Luke Brandon, Is Having An Affair With Her Hot Doc (who Also Happens To Be Luke's Ex-girlfriend), So She Hires A Gumshoe With Predictable Madcap Results. For Chick Lit Lovers With Babies Of Their Own, Or For Those Who Covet One, Kinsella Mines A Rich Vein By Tweaking 21st-century Glossy Mag Obsessions: From Sonograms To The Hottest Baby Strollers To Tricked-out Birthing Rooms. Kinsella's Ode To Baby Blues Is Both Sly And Slapstick-and For Now, At Least, Becky Is More Lovably Lucille Ball Than Annoyingly Paris Hilton. (mar.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.