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The Baby of Belleville

(Portobello Books 2010)
Every new mother has a story to tell. This is Jane de la Rochefoucault’s story and it contains all the familiar landmarks of feeding, teething, toddling and measuring stuff in and out of Tupperware. But Jane, an American expat in Paris, also faces more unusual challenges. One evening, a knock on the door brings some unexpected visitors: three kung fu experts bearing gifts for the baby. When this trio go missing (along with some stolen cars) Jane and her aristocrat husband Charles suddenly find themselves being interrogated by the police who seem to suspect the kung fu-ers have links to the mysterious underground organization Muslims-Without-Borders and that Jane’s mother-in-law may have a hand in the whole thing too…

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