The Family Way

by Tony Parsons

Book Overview

It should be the most natural thing in the world. But in Tony Parsons' latest bestseller, three couples discover that Mother Nature can be one hell of a bitch.A hard-working trainee doctor, Megan... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007203438
• ISBN13: 9780007203437
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publ. UK
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.9" x 4.4"

Customer Reviews

A nice story

This is a nice story, but not the best for Tony Parsons, I'd recommend Man and Boy and Man and Wife, they are deep and real, The Family Way is a little fabricated.

Not quite `Man and Boy', but well-worth reading

Whenever I start a book by Tony Parsons I know I'm in for a few late nights ... or even an all-nighter. Parson's characters are extremely easy to get attached to - they are so "real" that you can project someone you know to almost every single one of them and you can't help but feel for them. Plus, no-one deals with the intricacies of family quite like Parsons. This book focuses on three sisters: one is desperately trying to get pregnant, one finds herself accidentally pregnant following a one-night stand, while the third has decided that there's no room for a baby in her life ... but of course life is what happens to you while you're busy making plans! Very few writers, especially male writers, write about (and for?) women quite so well. Parsons has a talent for exposing raw nerves and then applying soothing balm to them all in the space of a few pages, but in this book, I think he's a little too generous with the balm and the result is a slightly soppier and more sentimental than in some of his previous work. Though he never strays so far so as to lose touch with the `real' feeling you get from his work the way the book rounds up to a somewhat "they lived happily ever after" ending was a bit cornier than is usual for Parsons.

the family "package" with its goods and bads..

I love Tony Parsons as a writer and I have read all of his previous books and finished this book in almost a day. its a very emotionally book that deals with the beautiful thing called: pregnancy, having a child and living as a couple. maybe the fact that I am pregnant at the moment and could easily relate to it and at some points I almost cried.... (really). but.... there were some medical "facts" that were mistakable and that made the enjoyable reading being less enjoyable.. I loved it but it wasn't Parsons's best but still I recommend it to anyone who is expecting a baby, having a baby,planning to have one or just living with the great other...