Crossing the Line
Published on 1. September 2018
320 pages
978-1-62681-608-4 (ISBN)
Description
A fake pregnancy, a real baby, and a madcap adventure: This follow-up to
The Thin Pink Line is "even better than the first book" (
Booklist).
London editor Jane Taylor pretended to be pregnant for months. Now she has rescued an actual abandoned baby-which would have come in handy for keeping up her charade, except that the infant is black and Jane is white. Finally giving up her ruse, Jane comes clean to the people in her life-but she wants to keep this precious little one.
To do that, she'll have to battle Social Services and take on anyone who tries to get in her way, with some help from her ex-boyfriend Tolkien. But as she tries to reassure others-and herself-that she would make a fit mother, it's clear that she'll always be crazy Jane...
This is a delightfully comic and touching tale from an author with a "deft touch and sure eye for character" (Elizabeth Letts, New York Times-bestselling author of The Perfect Horse).
London editor Jane Taylor pretended to be pregnant for months. Now she has rescued an actual abandoned baby-which would have come in handy for keeping up her charade, except that the infant is black and Jane is white. Finally giving up her ruse, Jane comes clean to the people in her life-but she wants to keep this precious little one.
To do that, she'll have to battle Social Services and take on anyone who tries to get in her way, with some help from her ex-boyfriend Tolkien. But as she tries to reassure others-and herself-that she would make a fit mother, it's clear that she'll always be crazy Jane...
This is a delightfully comic and touching tale from an author with a "deft touch and sure eye for character" (Elizabeth Letts, New York Times-bestselling author of The Perfect Horse).
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Lauren Baratz-Logsted is the author of over twenty-fiev books for adults, teens (including
The Twin's Daughterand
Little Women and Me), and children (The Sisters 8, a nine-book series she created with her husband and daughter). Before becoming an author, Lauren was an independent bookseller, freelance editor,
Publishers Weeklyreviewer, sort-of librarian and window washer. She lives with her family in Danbury, Connecticut. Visit her atwww.laurenbaratzlogsted.comor follow her@LaurenBaratzLon Twitter.
Content
- Intro
- Crossing the Line
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Still December
- January (finally!), New Year's Day, afternoon
- Back to.Christmas Day, early-ish
- New Year's Day, night
- Christmas Day, later-ish
- January, really and truly the first month
- February, the second month
- March, the third month
- April, the fourth month
- May, the fifth month
- June, the sixth month
- July, the seventh month
- August, the eighth month
- September, the ninth month
- October, the tenth month
- November, the eleventh month
- December, the twelfth month
- December 24, last chapter
- More from Lauren Baratz-Logsted
- Connect with Diversion Books
