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A hymn to a golden-hearted bimbo and looking for solutions in the least likely of places ''Shopaholic and Baby'' is light, funny, unpretentious and still fresh, despite being the fifth in a series. Sufficiently removed from reality to provide safe, brainless entertainment, but with social comedy touching lightly on some very noticeable (and very laughable) facets of modern urban life, ''Shopaholic and Baby'' will have the hard-core fans ecstatic while providing an afternoon of slightly guilty entertainment for many others. It requires talent to have this reviewer rooting for a character who doesn't know who Odysseus is and who loves shopping for shoes, and Kinsella has this talent. Ideal for bath-time reading.
Another chick-lit book with good social comedy and family environment but a rather less cotton-wool brained heroine is [[The Nanny]]. Shoe-addicted fans of chick-lit will probably like [[Under the Duvet]], even though this reviewer didn't; while real-life candidates for an urban yummy mummy should read [[The Fabulous Mum's Handbook]], if only to avoid buying 5 new prams and a cot with disco lights. You might also enjoy [[Tiny Acts of Love by Lucy Lawrie]]. You might also enjoy [[Mums Like Us by Laura Kemp]], although we had our doubts.
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