For those of you who still need some convincing that Jane Green should be at the top of your reading list, I offer you a review of one of her older titles, Babyville. 
When you’re living the life of a freewheeling young professional, where do babies enter into the picture? Bound in a comfortable but passionless relationship, Julia feels the solution to her troubles is to have a baby with Mark--the only problem is, she can’t seem to get pregnant after months of trying. When her best friend Sam was pregnant with her first child, she dreamed of leaving her job to enjoy stay-at-home motherhood. Now Sam is plagued with postpartum depression, and falling for a married man who makes her tingle in a way that her own husband no longer can. At a wedding, these two women meet Maeve, a television producer generating the best work of her career, who is struggling with her options after a one-night stand has resulted in pregnancy. Through these three intertwining stories, Green shows how pregnancy not only changes people’s lives, but also how having a baby changes a person's sense of self. Because of their unique situations, each woman has to not only reevaluate her priorities, but also modify her perceptions of herself and what she really wants out of life.
Written as a series of novellas, the stories will delight readers who love a London setting. With characters who could be your best friends, and situations so real that you feel every emotion, Green has again struck gold in her accurate portrayal of thirtsomethings. A definite must-read for fans of contemporary British women's fiction.
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