There's lots more I could drone on about but I believe my words would either be preaching to the choir or talking to a brick wall. g; someone jogging on the spot in his house waiting for his friend to arrive for a run (in my many years and thousands of kms of running, I have never known anyone to do that ever).

One thing I didn't love was the character of Rosalyn because I did not understand why she had no purpose other than to randomly pop up and offer magical hippie wisdom. Middle-class mothers organised Elizabeth and laid-back Bry are best friends, neighbours and godmothers to each other’s children. A quick decision and a half-truth have bitter consequences that will see the two women on opposite sides of a battle that goes far beyond two mothers. It also reminds me of Jodi Picoult and Liane Moriarty books so much that every time it reminded me that the book was set in the UK, I had to remind myself it wasn't them.The characters weren't really developed beyond their initial stereotypes, the portrayal of marriage seems particularly outdated and the story doesn't delve into the topic at all. Counting the minutes until he arrives, counting the unexpected guests, counting the times that something like this has happened before. It feels honest, fair, and doesn't shy away from any of the arguments frequently thrown up about vaccines (f*** Andrew Wakefield, seriously).

Both families live in the same street, their husbands are best friends and they are both godmothers to each other’s daughters. Eleanor is a chic postfeminist dynamo, or, as the clever Katie thinks of her: “Entrepreneur Barbie: shiny brown hair in mermaid curls, skin dewy, eyes clear. These little mini-chapters were interesting and I think it would have been fun to see the story told through these snippets. Emily Edwards has effectively and compassionately raised awareness for not just one side of this 'debate', but both which I will always say is an extremely hard concept to master. When something terrible happens to Elizabeth's daughter, she is hot on the trail of somebody to blame.

As she sat there with her hands over her huge stomach listening to them both, Emily realised this was an issue that impacts us all and that it would make a brilliant topic for a novel. And they ended up having a really tense argument in the garden about this and I just felt so conflicted. A good story and it was very intruiging reading about such big current topic and I definitely want to read more about this kinds of things. Bry has been conditioned to be fearful of vaccines due to her mother’s belief that her severely autistic and non-verbal elder brother’s condition was a direct result of receiving the MMR vaccine and, as a consequence her daughter Alba is unvaccinated.