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Karren S, Reviewer
Poppy McKellar can’t believe her long term partners attitude when she falls pregnant, she’s thirty and Poppy decides to have her baby, and move back to Orange, in country New South Wales and be closer to her parents. Poppy rents a house, starts setting up the nursery and making plans for her bundle of joy's arrival in the hottest month of the Australian summer.
Poppy finds herself in labour and alone and except for the pesky midwife she met a few weeks ago and sometimes she feels like the whole universe is against her. Poppy has her baby, her parents take them from hospital, and let’s just say the first night of solo parenting is sleepless and stressful, Poppy can’t relax, she’s hears every newborn squeak and lays there doubting her capabilities as a mother and ticking off all the things in her head she's checked and double checked.
Poppy starts to go for a daily walk and because she’s going stir crazy, she meets her elderly next door neighbour who’s sweet and then she bumps into James the midwife who delivered her bubs and he still presses all of Poppy’s buttons and if she wasn’t a mother she would strangle the neat and tidy know it all.
I received a copy of Special Delivery from Allen & Unwin and NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased and honest review. This is the first book I have read by Leesa Ronald and it won’t be my last and it was hilarious and I haven’t laughed so much in ages. Full of realistic, wonderful, diverse and funny characters, a warts and all tale about being a single mum, covering the later stages of pregnancy and the first year of a baby’s life.
Poppy stumbles from crisis to crisis, suffers from baby brain and a bad case of saying the first thing that pops into her head, while dealing with a blast from her past, and then she starts to notice how good looking and tall James the midwife is, who she vowed to detest for the rest of her life and he makes an already flustered Poppy worse and she's in no position for romance and she's a new mother for crying out loud!!
Five stars from me, one of the best books I have read in 2024 and I highly recommend.
