Gucci Gucci Coo

I found this book to be rather boring at the beginning. Besides trying to decipher the British English (since it varies so much from American English) nothing was really reeling me in. I'm glad I continued on, though. The mystery definitely drew me in. Unlike the other reviewer, I enjoyed the sex scenes. I didn't find them crude or distasteful at all. While the ending was awfully Hollywoodish for me, it was still a good mindless read.

I loved this book beacuse it was such an orginial book. Light and fun with a trace of mystery, this book is such a great read. Ruby finds herself in a sticky situation when her mother finds out that she is pregnant. Ruby, single in her 30's, is finding her job at a baby boutique becoming more and more taxing as the celebrity baby boom explodes in London. Ruby finds herself at the center of a hospital controversy involving her newest love interest and a customer of her botique. As Ruby searches to uncover the truth, she finds out new things about herself, her family, and her love interest. What a great book with an awesome and unexpected ending! Don't miss this book!

Ruby Silverman co-owns the celebrity frequented baby store Les Sprogs in exclusive Notting Hill section of London. She ponders the question that has bother humanity for the past century how does a starlet give birth and immediately afterward look like a perfectly fit marathon runner with a waist in negative numbers. Ruby has noticed that some of customers give birth and arrive with their newborn as svelte as ever. However, Ruby is shocked when she notices a customer expected to give birth soon has a flat stomach that the store owner envies. Her belly begins to think there is something sneaky going on so she begins to follow-up that tantalizing clue. Soon her efforts lead her to nearby St. Luke's Hospital for the rich and famous where she becomes a bit off her sleuthing path because her prime suspect is a gorgeous doctor. This satirical chick lit thriller is a fun tongue in cheek tale that grips the audience from the moment that Ruby begins to learns the top secret of starlet pregnancies and never slows down until she uncovers the final piece of evidence. The story line never takes itself seriously as amateur sleuth extraordinaire Ruby investigates the case that leads her into inquiries with eccentric casting. Chick lit and contemporary fans will enjoy Sue Margolis' mirth and merriment "mystery". Harriet Klausner

I have tried all of Margolis's novels and the only ones I really liked were Apocalipstick, Breakfast at Stephanie's and this one. I really loved the storyline of the baby store and the annoying celebrity mothers in Gucci Gucci Coo. It had a great mystery as well that kept me sucked in. This is definitely her best yet!

Ruby knows her celebrities, and not only from the gossip mags she devours. She has met many professionally since she runs Les Sprogs, the classy Notting Hill maternity and baby shop. Ruby enjoys her work and her life, but her artist mother is gently pushing for Ruby to find a new man. When her parents invite her over for "a talk" Ruby expects to hear more of the same. Instead, she's appalled to learn that her mum is pregnant. Ruby, aged 32, will become a big sister for the first time. Shouldn't she be the one settling down and having babies? She can't help feeling unsettled and jealous. Ruby signs on at St. Luke's Hospital to speak to expectant mothers about what they need to buy for their newborns. She marvels to the manager of the prenatal department that the many celebrities giving birth at St. Luke's are amazingly thin, both before and after delivering. The manager acts oddly anxious, hurriedly saying she can't discuss her patients. When Ruby leaves her meeting with the manager, she literally runs into Sam, an attractive American gynecologist. Ruby had actually met Sam previously when he overheard her on the phone discussing a visit with her own gyno in which her doctor discovered a postage stamp in a very, uh, unexpected place. Sam is hot, but the fact that he is a gynecologist gives Ruby pause. Meanwhile, Ruby is surrounded with infants and yearnings for infants. Her co-worker Chanel is struggling to get pregnant, while Ruby's best friend Fi is a bundle of exhaustion from sleepless nights with her newborn. Pregnant movie star Claudia Planchette arrives at Les Sprogs to try on maternity swimsuits. Ruby accidentally glimpses the unclothed Claudia through a crack in the dressing room curtains --- and can't believe her eyes. The supposedly expectant star is wearing a bodysuit with a fake six-months-pregnant belly. But why? It makes no sense, and eventually Ruby persuades herself that Claudia must have been wearing a maternity girdle. While at the hospital giving her layette talk to wealthy expectant mothers, Ruby learns they are dieting in hopes of remaining as thin as the much-publicized movie star moms. This is a sickening turn of events and Ruby is horrified at the thought of mothers denying their unborn babies (as well as themselves) nourishment because of vanity. Ruby and Sam's paths cross again when she attends Fi's infant son's ritual circumcision. When, under the influence of a mixture of painkillers and champagne, she nearly passes out, Sam attends to her. Yet another inauspicious meeting, to say the least, especially after Ruby chatters drunkenly, saying things she can only eternally regret. Sam is undeterred, however, and the two are magnetically drawn together into the beginning of a blissful relationship. In the midst of her joy with Sam, Ruby confronts mysteries. What are the calls Sam receives that so obviously trouble him, but that he refuses to discuss? What's the hinted-at story with his brother? What bizarre happenings