Maria is, as always, the one who does not have everything in order.

Fall in love, move in together, get married and then have children, that is the plan she is supposed to follow as well.

But she does it by accident and in completely the wrong order.

After one too many caipirinhas, secretly drunk in the toilet, she ends up on the back seat of the car of the handsome doctor Jacob after her best friend’s wedding.

Maria wants six. Jacob wants five.

So they agree on five and a half. Five children and a dog.

But that plan, like every grand plan, does not quite go smoothly.

This book is written for every one of us. As a reminder of the truth: that the wish to have children is not always fulfilled easily or immediately. And that even then, it is still okay, perfectly healthy and entirely normal.