MAKING IT UP AS I GO ALONG by Maria T. Lennon
Publisher Shaye Areheart Books, May 2005
Recalling the best recent women’s fiction, from Jennifer Weiner to
Elizabeth Berg, MAKING IT UP AS I GO ALONG is a funny, sophisticated, and
refreshingly original story about doing what feels right, versus the “right
thing.”
Meet Saffron Roch, a California native who’s living her life’s dream by
traveling the world as a war correspondent. She’s found what she thinks is
love with Oscar, a surgeon working for Doctors Without Borders, whose
enormous ego has more to do with his “overcompensation” than his
considerable surgical skill. But Saffron, whose daily mantra is to seek the
truth, refuses to see what is right before her eyes: Oscar's infidelity, the
attraction she feels for another man, and a war that's about to spill out
into the very streets where she lives.
When Saffron discovers that she's pregnant with her cheating surgeon's child
(read: knocked-up, newly jobless, and single at 38) and learns that she is
to inherit a ten-million dollar fortune back home, she moves back to Los
Angeles and throws herself into motherhood. She joins the trendy
breast-feeding support group at the Pump Station, where she meets a group of
mothers who seem overly superficial and egocentric at first. But they turn
out to have quite a bit to teach Saffron…
MAKING IT UP AS I GO ALONG is a compelling story about the choices that
every modern woman confronts, and how, in the face of such decisions, she
remains true to herself. 
“In Making It Up as I Go Along a savvy war correspondent faces the
ultimate challenge of single motherhood, and fortunately for her readers,
brings us along for the ride. And what a ride it is, from the first
hilarious account of breastfeeding with her newfound women pals until the
heartwarming ending. Don't miss this one!”
-- Cassandra King, author of The Same Sweet Girls and The
Sunday Wife
“Maria Lennon creates, with pitch-perfect details and an incredibly vivid
voice, a real modern-day character who’s smart and gutsy and fallible. This
is a must-read for anyone who has ever had to make a tough choice about
family, career, or love. You’ll find yourself cheering for Saffron on every
page!”
-- Lisa Tucker, author of The Song Reader and Shout Down
the Moon
"New mothers will surely identify with Saffron Roche's struggle between her
love affair with her new baby and her identity loss at leaving behind a
worldly career. This is a compulsively readable novel with lots of laugh out
loud insights into life. "
-- Paulina Porizkova, former model, current mother and novelist
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