We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.

It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.

The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.