Here's a writing problem for you...

I've a friend who's written a novel, as yet unpublished (I hope that won't be the case for long because its subject matter is fascinating and curiously little used, given that it affects everyone who'll ever be a parent).

Anyway. This novel centres on a group of young middle-class women in London, brought together by an extremely likely circumstance which I won't go into for fear of spoilers, but suffice to say it's a good way of bringing together women of assorted incomes and professions. It'...