By Kasey Edwards

Ebury Australia

When you’re young, you never think of yourself as a potential parent. In young adulthood, this state of blissful unawareness turns into a state of extreme disassociation or stunned ignorance. At yet another party, you’re not considering your embryo-producing potential.

Then into your thirties, friends start dropping like flies to push prams around, and questions start popping into your head.

If you are feeling mute about the idea of reproducing, then you may need this comprehensive, practical and humorous book. Covering singles, couples, the agonies of IVF, the mysteries of pregnancy and attitudes to work, it zooms in on a delicate turning point 
in our lives.

It’s a warning: to those who say they don’t want children but who want to keep their options open; to those who want kids but not yet; and to those who simply have not thought about it.

The author asks what would it feel like to want a baby and not be able to have one. Or to have one then wish you hadn’t. Born of a era in which couples often do find themselves, if not unsure, then ready but unable, this will be pertinent reading.