Ebook {Epub PDF} Fake Baby by Amy McDaid

 · This book may be her debut novel but, by the looks of things, it definitely won't be Amy McDaid's last. Telling a darkly humourous and twisted tale, Fake Baby focuses on three 'oddball' characters. Eastlife. Fake Baby is a snapshot, it starts at a random time and ends similarly, with characters mid-journey. It sounds like a depressing read, but although incredibly sad it is also very .  · The title of Amy McDaid’s debut novel, Fake Baby, brings to my mind this doll. Of course, the fake baby in the book is a doll of much grander ambition – it is made from silicone, baked and hand-painted and weighted perfectly to mimic a real baby. The doll, a Reborn worth more than $, is stolen by one of the main characters, Jaanvi. Amy McDaid has a Master of Creative Writing (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor's degree in English and History from the University of Auckland. The first draft of Fake Baby was awarded the Sir James Wallace Prize- New Zealand's richest prize for a creative writing student. She works part-time as a Newborn Intensive Care Nurse and has work published in The Spinoff and Auckland University's 5/5(2).

Excerpt from Fake Baby By Amy McDaid The fridge was empty in a western-world kind of way, the freezer overloaded with six- month-old breast milk in thin plastic bags, and the pantry contained only staples that couldn't quite make a meal: flour, cumin, some weevil-ridden oats and a torn packet of Uncle Ben's rice that dripped grains one by. September Bookety Club review of Fake Baby by Amy McDaid⁣⁣This book follows three characters, over nine days, based in Auckland. We follow Jaanvi, who while grieving the loss of a baby steals a fake baby doll from a store in town. Lucas, a pharmacist in his 40's dealing with his manic Mum and has given the wrong medica. Amy McDaid. Amy McDaid has a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland. The draft of her first novel Fake Baby won the Sir James Wallace Prize in , New Zealand's richest prize for a creative writing student. She lives in Titirangi, and while not writing, works part-time as a newborn intensive care nurse.

READ CLOSE: If you could say something to the Amy who is just starting to write Fake Baby, what would you tell her? AMY MCDAID: I’m not sure I’d tell her anything!She doesn’t need advice, because I know she’d learn what she needed to at the right time, at the right place in the writing process, and that she will always have something to learn, and those lessons will be precious (and. The title of Amy McDaid’s debut novel, Fake Baby, brings to my mind this doll. Of course, the fake baby in the book is a doll of much grander ambition – it is made from silicone, baked and hand-painted and weighted perfectly to mimic a real baby. The doll, a Reborn worth more than $, is stolen by one of the main characters, Jaanvi. Amy McDaid is the author of Fake Baby ( avg rating, ratings, 44 reviews, published ).