Gucci Gucci Coo [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

I loved this book beacuse it was such an orginial book. Light and fun with a trace of mystery, this book is such a great read.

Ruby finds herself in a sticky situation when her mother finds out that she is pregnant. Ruby, single in her 30's, is finding her job at a baby boutique becoming more and more taxing as the celebrity baby boom explodes in London. Ruby finds herself at the center of a hospital controversy involving her newest love interest and a customer of her botique.

As Ruby searches to uncover the truth, she finds out new things about herself, her family, and her love interest. What a great book with an awesome and unexpected ending!

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Ruby knows her celebrities, and not only from the gossip mags she devours. She has met many professionally since she runs Les Sprogs, the classy Notting Hill maternity and baby shop. Ruby enjoys her work and her life, but her artist mother is gently pushing for Ruby to find a new man. When her parents invite her over for "a talk" Ruby expects to hear more of the same. Instead, she's appalled to learn that her mum is pregnant. Ruby, aged 32, will become a big sister for the first time. Shouldn't she be the one settling down and having babies? She can't help feeling unsettled and jealous.

Ruby signs on at St. Luke's Hospital to speak to expectant mothers about what they need to buy for their newborns. She marvels to the manager of the prenatal department that the many celebrities giving birth at St. Luke's are amazingly thin, both before and after delivering. The manager acts oddly anxious, hurriedly saying she can't discuss her patients.

When Ruby leaves her meeting with the manager, she literally runs into Sam, an attractive American gynecologist. Ruby had actually met Sam previously when he overheard her on the phone discussing a visit with her own gyno in which her doctor discovered a postage stamp in a very, uh, unexpected place. Sam is hot, but the fact that he is a gynecologist gives Ruby pause.

Meanwhile, Ruby is surrounded with infants and yearnings for infants. Her co-worker Chanel is struggling to get pregnant, while Ruby's best friend Fi is a bundle of exhaustion from sleepless nights with her newborn. Pregnant movie star Claudia Planchette arrives at Les Sprogs to try on maternity swimsuits. Ruby accidentally glimpses the unclothed Claudia through a crack in the dressing room curtains --- and can't believe her eyes. The supposedly expectant star is wearing a bodysuit with a fake six-months-pregnant belly. But why? It makes no sense, and eventually Ruby persuades herself that Claudia must have been wearing a maternity girdle.

While at the hospital giving her layette talk to wealthy expectant mothers, Ruby learns they are dieting in hopes of remaining as thin as the much-publicized movie star moms. This is a sickening turn of events and Ruby is horrified at the thought of mothers denying their unborn babies (as well as themselves) nourishment because of vanity.

Ruby and Sam's paths cross again when she attends Fi's infant son's ritual circumcision. When, under the influence of a mixture of painkillers and champagne, she nearly passes out, Sam attends to her. Yet another inauspicious meeting, to say the least, especially after Ruby chatters drunkenly, saying things she can only eternally regret. Sam is undeterred, however, and the two are magnetically drawn together into the beginning of a blissful relationship.

In the midst of her joy with Sam, Ruby confronts mysteries. What are the calls Sam receives that so obviously trouble him, but that he refuses to discuss? What's the hinted-at story with his brother? What bizarre happenings surround the celebrity mothers at St. Luke's? Is Sam truly the person she believes he is?

GUCCI GUCCI COO is part mystery and part romance, laden with hysterically funny scenes and characters readers will believe they've been friends with for years. Sue Margolis juggles and weaves several storylines, employing unforeseen twists in the tale culminating in an unforgettable climax --- which all makes for perfect escape reading on a lazy summer's afternoon.

--- Reviewed by Terry Miller Shannon (terryms2001@yahoo.com)

This book was a bit different than typical "chick lit." However, perhaps sticking to the "formula" for writing chick lit would have been a better idea for Margolis.

It's a good story, and she generally makes her characters likeable, which is the strongest point of the book. The plot lines are a bit far fetched with Sam's (the male love interest) family associations and a hospital's ethics. But it is interesting despite those things.

I think this book is suited well for someone looking for something light and mindless to read. In other words, "Gucci Gucci Coo" (which could be the cutest title I have ever heard) is the perfect summer beach/pool side read. I enjoyed reading it.