CERTAIN GIRLS PB A FORMAT – JENNIFER WEINER

It s been almost thirteen years since we last saw Cannie Shapiro, the heroine of Good in Bed, whose journey towards happy-ever-after made millions of women the world over laugh, cry and recognise themselves. The last decade of Cannie s life has brought some surprises. Her life story, in fictional form, became an unexpected bestseller, and Cannie has since retreated from fame s fallout, writing science-fiction under a pen name and praying that all her daughter inherited from her father, Cannie s ex-boyfriend Bruce Guberman, are her curls and her eye-colour, and not his predilection for smoking pot. Meanwhile Cannie s best friend, Samantha, is looking for love in all the wrong places, and Cannie s husband, Peter, has decided that he d like to have a baby, and the family s first choice for a surrogate is none other than Cannie s flamboyant kid sister …