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Maternity Leave

A Novel

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Maternity Leave

By: Julie Halpern
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
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About this listen

Julie Halpern's Maternity Leave tells the profane, profound and just plain funny story of a professional woman who thinks she's ready for a baby but her maternity leave proves otherwise.

Thirty six year old Annie Schwartz-Jensen is a middle school teacher on maternity leave-a time she imagined as uninterrupted, blissful bonding with her baby. Instead she is dealing with her body leaking from every possible orifice, a baby who won't sleep, a husband who still wants to have sex with her (is he nuts??), single friends who are clueless, and a mother who picked now to take a vacation. The only people who REALLY understand Annie are the wonderful people she spends sleepless nights with on QVC: Keep those velveteen table runners and non-jiggle stretch pants coming!

As Annie navigates life with her new baby, she realizes that not all Mommies are created equal. But she is determined to find her way, love her baby, her husband, herself---even if she has to wear nipple protectors for the rest of her child-bearing life.

The audiobook includes an interview with the author.

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Critic reviews

<p>“Uproariously funny and authentic.” —<i>Booklist on Get Well Soon</i><br><br>“A dazzling novel full of spirit and laugh out loud moments.” —<i>BookYAReview on The F-It List</i><br><br>“It's wry, romantic, and so, so true.” —<i>Gabrielle Zevin, author of Elsewhere on Get Well Soon</i></p>
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