Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Release date: 16 January 2025
Back cover blurb: An intense heatwave. A high-stakes baby shower. Will it all end in tears? Nicki, Lauren, Charlotte and Steffi have been friends since university. Now in their thirties, life is pulling them in different directions - but when Charlotte organises the baby shower of hell for pregnant Nicki, the girls are reunited. Under a sweltering hot summer day, tensions rise - and by the end of the evening, nothing will ever be the same. Someone started a fire at the house - and everyone's a suspect... Is it Steffi, happily child-free but feeling judged by her friends? Is it Charlotte, desperate to conceive and jealous of those who have? Is it Lauren, who is finding motherhood far, far worse than she imagined? Or is it Nicki herself, who never wanted a baby shower anyway?
Nicki, Steffi, Charlotte and Lauren have been best friends since University. When Charlotte organises a baby shower for heavily pregnant Nicki, none of them really want to go.
It is one of the hottest summers on record, and they are now in the middle of a sweltering heatwave. Nicki just wants to cool down, and really doesn't want the fuss. In fact. she'd just like to be left alone in peace to mentally prepare herself for the road ahead.
Steffi as much as she loves her friends, has somewhere far more important to be. In fact her career (and business) depends on her being contactable that day. Oh, and she doesn't want Kids. A source of tension between the friends as they try but fail to understand each others viewpoints.
Lauren just wants to sleep, and maybe a baby sitter. A new Mother herself, with a baby that won't sleep and a severe bout of post natal depression and trauma from a complicated birth (that isn't diagnosed until the end of the novel). She is exhausted in every sense of the word.
All Charlotte wants is for the baby shower to go off with a hitch. Which it will, because Charlotte is a meticulous planner. Who is also desperate to be a Mother herself. She plans the day down to the last second, because that's just who she is, but also to distract herself.
She knows that the day is going to be amazing, and talked about for ever. Because as well as a baby shower, the day also has a surprise in store for Nicki, courtesy of Charlotte, and Nicki's husband Matt.
A gender reveal..
Towards the end of the day, when the games have been played, the cupcakes have been devoured and everyone is tired and happy, a gender reveal firework will be set off, with the aim of surprising and delighting.
What could possibly go wrong?
So Thrilled For You is available from 16 January 2025. You can pre-order it now via Amazon and all good book shops.
Thank You to the publishers who approved my request via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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