Maud Gone : Dca, Inc. : 9781948835053 : 1948835053 : 22 Mar 2019 : Maud Malone Devlin, 8.5 months pregnant, has two big problems-well, three if you count the size of her belly. Her birthing class instructor, the very definition of blond bombshell, is a fraud intent on selling Maud a "painless birth". And that's just the beginning of Maud's discomfort. On the eve of their first child's birth, she discovers her husband Jack has his eyes-and hands-set on the instructor when he should be focused on Maud's meditation exercises. Despite Jack's pleas, Maud holes up with the baby at her friend Johanna's, until her post-partum insomnia drives Maud further upstate to the care of Doctor Dad. When her insomnia gives rise to a lucrative business, Maud is fortuitously presented with an opportunity to take revenge against her rival. Maud deals with the husband-stealing birthing instructor, but now what about the husband? PRAISE: "This loving wacky first novel whose messages about love, motherhood