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BED REST<br />
Sarah Bilston<br />
I laughed out loud and I couldn’t put it down<br />
– Marion Keyes<br />
<strong>Conville</strong> & <strong>Walsh</strong> <strong>Ltd</strong><br />
Fiction<br />
Even if you’ve never been pregnant you’ll be as instantly hooked on this addictive novel as I was<br />
– Plum Sykes<br />
Prescribe yourself some of the same, so that you can bask in the humour, poignancy and warmth of this<br />
gorgeous novel<br />
– Elizabeth Sykes<br />
Did you know that every year nearly three-quarters of a million women are confined to their beds<br />
because of complications with their pregnancy? In fact, according to an article in The New York<br />
Times, a fifth of all pregnant women will spend some time on bed rest.<br />
In this humorous and touching debut, Sarah Bilston examines what happens to a first-time mother<br />
who becomes imprisoned owing to prenatal complications. Q is a young English lawyer married to an<br />
American and living in New York City. She’s ticked off most of the boxes on her list of things-to-dobefore-I’m-30<br />
and her busy working life has been relatively painless. But when her doctor tells her<br />
that she must spend the last three months of her pregnancy lying in bed, Q is thrown into a tailspin –<br />
her manic life must stop and the inertia that follows plunges her relationship with her friends, family<br />
and husband into murky despair. Can she overcome her doubts about her husband and deliver her<br />
baby into what is an increasingly uncertain world?<br />
Sarah Bilston was born and educated in England but now lives with her husband and their daughter<br />
in Connecticut. Sarah taught women’s studies at Yale University and is now assistant professor of<br />
English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge. She has been published academically and is now<br />
working on the sequel to BED REST, entitled SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. Check out Sarah’s BED REST blog:<br />
http://sarahbilston.typepad.com/.<br />
UK Publisher Time Warner<br />
US Publisher HarperCollins<br />
UK Publication March 2007<br />
Status Proofs<br />
Length 80,000 words<br />
Agent KCS<br />
All rights available excluding UK & Commonwealth, US, Brazil (Record), Germany (Rowohlt), Italy (Piemme),<br />
Japan (Softbank), Netherlands (De Boekerij), Spain (Salamandra), Sweden (Norstedts)<br />
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