I just finished this book by Christine Coppa and I loved it! The book is her memoir about how her ‘Sex and the City’ lifestyle as a journalist changed when she found herself unexpectedly pregnant three months into a relationship. At 26 this is a big change in one’s life but she declares from the start that although the pregnancy was not wanted, the baby always was!
The father disappears from the picture quite soon and Christine keeps playing solo with the help of her loving family (of Italian origin) and her super cool friends. She moves out of Manhattan back to the New Jersey suburbs and sets up her nest to welcome her baby, Jack Domenec.
The book is a funny and empowering story about a girl who is about to become a mother, her fears and her doubts, and also her few certainties. I think that any mum would relate to her immediately because of the way she dissects and describes the joys and pains of motherhood.

It may be a weird analogy but you know how when you are traveling alone you seem to observe and absorb more of the new surroundings? That’s the feeling I have had when reading Christine’s book — it may just be her powerful writing style but it seemed to me that by being alone she had more time to think about the changes motherhood brings to a woman’s life. Personally I was really moved by her birth story because it brought back the nice memories of my first c-section; I was reading the book while sharing the couch with my son and I was afraid he could see the tears streaking my cheeks!
Christine is still living in New Jersey, full time freelancing and has a successful blog on Glamour called Storked! You can also read one of her essays here to get a feeling of her style and story.
The book is available from Amazon (US or UK).

-Michela