Had to ignore those comments to get to the rest of the story. To blame the woman for the situation and absolve the man of all responsibility, is abhorrent to me. Unless she was having some private happy time with a vial of sperm, there were TWO PEOPLE involved in this pregnancy. But even then, people wouldn't have said things like this. I know this book was written in the 1980's and there's no cell phones in the story. They practically THREW condoms at us in h.s.)īut in the book, all anyone said about HIM is that he was such a stand-up guy for marrying her and never disparaging her because of her MISTAKE in getting pregnant. He didn't even mention condoms or STI's (and I was alive in the 80's, we were taught about disease prevention in school, believe me.
Never mind that the guy involved didn't ask a SINGLE question about birth control when they had sex. They say she was "careless," "irresponsible".the pregnancy is ALL her fault for not taking precautions with birth control. The story starts with an unplanned pregnancy and EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE PREGNANT WOMAN, blames HER for it. The only thing that keeps me from giving 5 stars: the blatant SEXISM here. Love this book even though it's totally dated. I would also recommend two other excellent books by Mcnaught: PERFECT and DOUBLE STANDARDS. Their is humor, drama and suspense, you are taken on a wonderful journey you do not want to end. Their reunion is classic and there after the fireworks begin. It picks up ten years later, Matt is now a sought after billionaire and Meredith is now trying too become President of her father's floundering company. Their beginning story and all that transpired during that time was bittersweet, there relationship ending on very bad terms and you are left rooting for them both and anxious to see what will happen next. The story begins with Matt and Meredith meeting when she was a young rich debutante and he was the poor laborer. Having read this book several times, I can honestly say this book is one of the best romance novels written by an author, every so often I would pick it up and read it as though it's the first time.
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