Crossing the Line

Reeks: The Jane Taylor Novels

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  • A
  • fake
  • pregnancy,
  • a
  • real
  • baby,
  • and
  • a
  • madcap
  • adventure:
  • This
  • follow-up
  • to
  • The
  • Thin
  • Pink
  • Line
  • is
  • “even
  • better
  • than
  • the
  • first
  • book”
  • (Booklist).London
  • editor
  • Jane
  • Taylor
  • pretended
  • to
  • be
  • pregnant
  • for
  • months.
  • Now
  • she
  • has
  • rescued
  • an
  • actual
  • abandoned
  • baby—which
  • would
  • have
  • come
  • in
  • handy
  • for
  • keeping
  • up
  • her
  • charade,
  • except
  • that
  • the
  • infant
  • is
  • black
  • and
  • Jane
  • is
  • white.
  • Finally
  • giving
  • up
  • her
  • ruse,
  • Jane
  • comes
  • clean
  • to
  • the
  • people
  • in
  • her
  • life—but
  • she
  • wants
  • to
  • keep
  • this
  • precious
  • little
  • one.To
  • do
  • that,
  • she’ll
  • have
  • to
  • battle
  • Social
  • Services
  • and
  • take
  • on
  • anyone
  • who
  • tries
  • to
  • get
  • in
  • her
  • way,
  • with
  • some
  • help
  • from
  • her
  • ex-boyfriend
  • Tolkien.
  • But
  • as
  • she
  • tries
  • to
  • reassure
  • others—and
  • herself—that
  • she
  • would
  • make
  • a
  • fit
  • mother,
  • it’s
  • clear
  • that
  • she’ll
  • always
  • be
  • crazy
  • Jane
  • .
  • .
  • .This
  • is
  • a
  • delightfully
  • comic
  • and
  • touching
  • tale
  • from
  • an
  • author
  • with
  • a
  • “deft
  • touch
  • and
  • sure
  • eye
  • for
  • character”
  • (Elizabeth
  • Letts,
  • New
  • York
  • Times–bestselling
  • author
  • of
  • The
  • Perfect Horse).
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