If there ever was a reason to resume pelvic floor exercises this book is it – La’Brooy’s fourth novel Babymoon is side-splittingly funny. Isabelle, the lovable character from the bestselling Love Struck is back: this time she’s got her man and they want to have children. So begins an Aussie girl’s riotous journey through a first-time pregnancy, complete with a boss from hell, a resurfacing ex-boyfriend and a contemporary artist in pursuit of her placenta.

What makes this book so damn funny are the myriad of observations and digressions on subjects ranging from the absurdity of peeing on a plastic stick to determine your life’s destiny, getting motivated to go to the gym so as to fit into borrowed maternity wear, the demise of the Carlton football club and the potential of parthenogenesis as a birthing method. La’Brooy has an uncanny gift for making the mundane hilarious and she captures the bewildering world of pregnancy and childbirth impeccably. Sharp, witty and not a word out of place … think David Sedaris on folic acid.