Anyone who has ever experienced the mind numbing fatigue that accompanies new parenthood will recognize the descriptions in this book. Not everyone responds to the fatigue and challenges to the relationship by absconding to Barbados with the baby, however! The author managed to make that understandable although I did find the father’s character more relatable and more sympathetic than the character of the mother. Although the baby is at the centre of the book it is really about the marriage, friendships and lives of the parents and how they are thrust into crisis by the birth of their baby.