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The Accidental Mother | 
| Manufacturer: Pocket Books
Category: EBooks
List Price: $11.99
Buy New: $9.59
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 35642
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
ASIN: B000W5MHZ4
Publication Date: September 4, 2007
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Product Description
From bestselling author Rowan Coleman comes a deeply touching tale of a fast-track career woman whose life takes a sharp right turn when motherhood unexpectedly lands in her lap. Sophie and Carrie were childhood best friends, but in the last few years they've lost touch. While Carrie chose motherhood in a small town, Sophie is powering up the London career track. She's a corporate manager poised for her next promotion. Sure, she doesn't have much time for men, but she has a great shoe collection and a cat who's never going to let her down.And then Sophie is told that Carrie has died, with nobody left to care for her two daughters, Bella and Izzy, aged six and three. Their father, who left before Carrie's death, is nowhere to be found; their grandmother is moving into assisted living. Sophie once promised Carrie she would take care of her children if the worst ever happened...and now that day has come. Witty, wise, and filled with genuinely powerful emotion, The Accidental Mother is the heartwarming, heartbreaking story of a woman who is woefully under-equipped to be suddenly thrown into motherhood, but who through the eyes of two little girls learns more about loss, commitment, and true love than she had ever realized existed.
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 Ultimately, a disappointment August 30, 2008
If you are looking for an "airplane-read", then this might suffice. It is better than the airline magazines. The beginning is slow starting, but it picks up as Sophie gets immersed in the overwhelming task of just keeping up with the nearly-orphaned wee ones. I enjoyed this middle part immensely and found it very realistic and humorous. Near the end of the book, however, when Sophie's romantic interest in a man starts to surface, she begins to act with total disregard for the children, and returns to her self-centered persona. This is somewhat unbelievable for this character, as she has shown tremendous love and self-sacrifice for the children. It seems that the author jumps from a carefully orchestrated novel to a "just finish the darned thing" ending. Final analysis: the beginning is slow; the middle is funny, sad, endearing, and heart-warming; the ending reads more like a trashy romance novel. The plethora of typos is an added annoyance.
What do you do when in an instant your life is turned inside out? July 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
That is the question Sophie Mills has to face when, on a regular work day she finds out that her best friend since childhood, Carrie, has died and she is left to take care of her two girls Bella & Izzy indefinitely. In an instant Sophie has to take leave of her job and figure out how to make a home, however temporary for these girls. Workaholic Sophie is certainly not up for the task. She and her best friend Carrie had not spoken for ages before her death and Sophie, loath to admit it as she may be, feels no connection to her godchildren. In fact the only connections Sophie does have is with her gay assistant Cal and her not-so-friendly cat Airtimis.
Now with very little help from a kindly but overworked social worker Tess, Sophie has to figure out how to keep up with her job, help these girls who have been ripped from the only life and parent they know, all the while trying to find the father that abandoned them years ago.
Despite the many typos, as other reviewers have pointed out `THE ACCIDENTAL MOTHER' is a heartwarming story that may be a bit predictable at times but will still satisfy the reader to the end.
 Needs a new editor???? July 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just finished reading The Accidental Mother by Rowan Coleman. I found it cute yet predictable. My main objection to the book is the number of typos and grammatical mistakes I found. I can't stand typos!!!! This is a professionally published book, not self-published. Who's in charge of checking for inappropriately placed words, words left out, grammar errors? It's very frustrating to me to be reading, getting into the setting, the characters, the story, and then have an article left out or word spelled wrong. It completely breaks my concentration. Does anyone else feel this way? Did anybody else find the mistakes I'm talking about?
Thanks for letting me vent.
Good chick lit! June 14, 2008
A perfect life is what she has. At least that's how Sophie views her life at the beginning of The Accidental Mother by Rowan Coleman. She's on top of her career, one step away from the top of her company. She's got lots of friends - unfortunately she's too busy with work to see them much but she knows they are there. But then a social worker shows up at her office - her best friend growing up, the one she hasn't talked to in 3 years even though she always meant to, has been dead for 6 months. And they just found her will that says Sophie should be given custody of the two girls. She agrees, out of guilt, on a temporary basis, until their father can be found. The story tells of how Sophie handles the change in her life, a 3 year old wildly creative fairy, a 6 year old tightly wound girl and their father.
This book almost immediately reminded me of a movie. Not that I've seen this movie. Maybe it would just be a good movie. It was a cute story - about finding yourself when you didn't really know you were lost. It would make a good book club book as there are lots of different aspects of the characters that are flawed and bear discussion. I found it very believable and interesting throughout. Good chick lit!
Predictable March 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Judging by its premise I expected to love this book. The storyline is excellent. Compelling in that it elicits strong emotions from the reader and addictive in that you are eager to find out the fate of the characters. However, as the page number increased so too did my impatience. Sophie was a whiny bore with low self esteem. Her work and personal lives were an oxymoron. She was amazingly accomplished at one and could plunder on through unimaginable setbacks. However, where her personal life was concerned, her immature and selfish ways of dealing with things left me frustrated to be spending precious time reading such nonsense. I enjoyed the middle part of the novel immensely but honestly, by the end, I was disappointed and regretful that I spent my time on it.
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