Susan Barrett's first novel, Jam Today, much acclaimed and highly successful, had a zany style all its own.  Moses is in the same genre, again an offbeat girl's story or, rather, baby's story.  For Moses, born on holiday, is but a few weeks old and lives in a large rush basket covered by a striped bathing towel.  He goes to work with Jo, who wants to keep her job as an advertising copywriter as well as her baby.  Gradually the presence of an extra employee in the copy department is discovered.  As the circle of conspirators widens, it becomes more and more difficult to keep the baby secret. This leads to some inspired countermeasures and laugh-out-loud moments. This entertaining and thought-provoking story describes a woman's dilemma which is as topical today as it was in the 60s.   Originally published in hardback by Michael Joseph, in paperback by Sphere, now made available as an ebook by WritersReadersDirect.

‘One of the wittiest novels I have read recently,’ Derek Stanford, Scotsman