Book Review: And God Created the Au Pair

Book review: And God Created the Au Pair
By Benedicte Newland and Pascale Smets

This book is done entirely in emails. (Like Meg Cabot’s Boy Meets Girl and Every Boy’s Got One.) Two sisters, separated by the Atlantic Ocean communicate their adventures in parenting via email.

Charlotte is in England with three children and a house that is being renovated. Her main goal is to get through another day of keeping her youngest and most troublesome child, Hugh, through the day alive. Which can be a tricky feat when your brother-in-law has turned the guest bedroom into a photo lab and you have to use a crane to get your husband’s Christmas present (a rather weighty and large bathtub) into the house.

Her sister, Nell, is in Canada coping with a rather strange son who has enough minor medical problems to keep her on her toes. She does, however, have a lovely ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ neighbour who keeps her preoccupied and humoured.

The scary thing is that despite barely keeping their home-fronts from become a war-front, they want more babies. Thank goodness for the Au Pair.

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