Phyllis Rudin

Evie, the Baby and the Wife Phyllis Rudin

Fiction. Evie Troy has a tendency to overcomplicate things. When her dying friend, Jean-Gabriel, a successful and controversial francophone writer, cons her into carrying out his last wish, delivering his fortune to his ex-wife Amélie without her knowing the source of the money, Evie decides that what Amélie really needs is a baby--something she and Jean-Gabriel were unable to have. Evie's pregnancy scheme pops so many holes at the seams that she's forced to enlist the aid of her estranged mother Marilyn. Marilyn can't fathom her daughter's determination to saddle up her womb on spec, but she agrees to come on board and the two of them head-butt their way through every step of Evie's program, from arm-twisting Mr. Right into coughing up his sperm to staging the flimflam that will relay the newborn to the oblivious Amélie. Played out against the backdrop of the fight for women's rights in Canada, EVIE, THE BABY AND THE WIFE is the boisterous tale of a mother and daughter at odds, struggling to reconnect across a reproductive divide.