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The Baby Trail

» Sinead Moriarty

Penguin Ireland
Paperback : 09 Sep 2004

Synopsis

Emma Hamilton's biological clock is ticking. She wants a baby and she wants one NOW. When Mother Nature refuses to play ball, Emma decides to give her a prod - or two.

Soon her life is a roller-coaster of post-sex handstands (you can't argue with gravity), hormone-inducing (sanity-reducing) drugs and a veritable army of probing specialists (torturers more like). It's out with the booze and spontaneous sex, in with green tea and ovulation tests.

Emma couldn't have conceived that the road to pregnancy would turn into the mother of all journeys. But she's finding out that once you're on the baby trail, nothing is sacred - and one way or another, life will never be the same again ...

Reviews

Customer Review: 27 October 2004

Reviewer: Sian

Brilliant from start to finish. Made me roar with laughter, want to cry and want to read on. Couldn't put it down. Very much what a book should be.

Interview

Sinead Moriarty, the author of The Baby Trail, a sparkling and laugh-out-loud funny debut, lets us peak into her life with our twenty quick-fire questions.

Who or what always puts a smile on your face?
My old photo albums – the clothes and hairstyles are hilarious, (the scary thing is I actually thought I looked ‘cool’!)

What are you reading at the moment?
I’m currently reading: Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend, DBC Pierre’s Vernon God Little and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - all completely different and equally brilliant.

Which author do you most admire?
I love reading books by authors that make me stand back in awe because the writing is so poetic. Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams is one of my favourite books, as is The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan. All three authors write like poets.

What's your earliest memory?
Being lumbered with my sister’s First Holy Communion dress. It was short, which was fine when she made her Communion, but by the time I made mine – the maxi was in. I was the only girl in the class wearing a short dress and I wasn’t happy about it.

What is your greatest fear?
Writer’s block

How would you like to be remembered?
Fondly

Have you even done something you've really regretted?
I grew up

How do you spoil yourself?
Chocolate, a blazing fire and an old Bette Davis movie.

What's your favourite word/book?
Can I have a phrase? ‘It’s never too late’

Who do you turn to in a crisis?
My husband

What makes you angry?
Call centers turn me into a monster. Also I think that anyone who has Greensleeves as their call-waiting music should be put away for life.

Have you ever had any other jobs apart from writing?
I worked in marketing for four years and then as a journalist for six years in London which was great fun as I got to travel the world on expenses!

Are you in love?
Yes

What's your worst vice?
Watching Oprah when I should be writing

What are you proudest of?
Everything and nothing

Where do you write?
In the spare room at home

Where's your favourite city?
Paris. I lived there for a year and adored it.

When was the last time you cried?
I practically had to be medicated when Sex and the City ended.

One wish; what would it be?
That fake tan was permanent

Did you enjoy school?
I didn’t dislike it, but I went to a very strict convent school, so I couldn’t wait to get out of the place and experience life and all it had to offer…

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