Watermelon

Description:

February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a postpartum body that she can hardly bear to look at. She decides to go home to Dublin. And there, sheltered by the love of a quirky family, she gets better. So much so, in fact, that when James slithers back into her life, he's in for a bit of a surprise.

subjects: Fiction,  Mothers and daughters,  Single mothers,  Runaway husbands,  Infants (Newborn),  Newborn infants,  Single women,  Female friendship,  English fiction,  Divorced mothers,  Irish authors,  Mothers and daughters -- Fiction,  Divorced mothers -- Fiction,  Ireland -- Fiction,  Fiction, family life,  Dublin (ireland), fiction,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  Fiction, romance, contemporary,  Single women, fiction,  Fiction, women,  Fiction, family life, general,  Fiction, humorous,  Marriage,  Families,  Sisters,  Domestic fiction

Places: Ireland,  Dublin (Ireland)

Times: 20th century