The Stork Club - Rilegato

Edwards-Jones, Imogen

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0593056086 ISBN 13: 9780593056080

Casa editrice: Bantam Press, 2006

Riassunto

When I was a teenager, I thought you could get pregnant from sitting in a jacuzzi. Not that I'm sure I even knew what a jacuzzi was, but I knew they were racy places where racy things happened. Men, as far as I remember, didn't even have to be there. So long as they'd been in the water in some sort of excitable state, pregnancy was inevitable - even if you kept your pants on. You see pregnancy was that easy, that dangerous and it could ruin your life. Almost 20 years later, and pregnancy could still ruin my life. Although, now it is not the threat of what having a baby would do, but of not having a baby at all. I have been trying to get pregnant for two years and have not even come close to hearing the pitter-patter of tiny feet...' So begins "The Stork Club", Imogen Edwards-Jones' very personal, very moving and very funny memoir of her (and her husband's) trials and tribulations with IVF. Poked and prodded by endless doctors, pumped full of an exotic cocktail of drugs and forced to try to have sex at the most inopportune moments, Imogen pulls no punches in her account of this process. In her words, 'The fertility game is like a marathon, where you just have to keep on running. No matter how many times the finishing line is moved, no matter how increasingly heavy the going or unpleasant the terrain, you pick yourself up and, ever more determinedly, keep on going. Until one day, you pray, you might just make it...

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Informazioni sull'autore

Imogen Edwards-Jones is the bestselling author of Hotel Babylon and Air Babylon, as well as the novels My Canape Hell, The Wendy House and Tuscany for Beginners. She lives in west London with her husband, Kenton and their new baby daughter.

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'The fertility game is like a marathon, where you just have to keep on running. No matter how many times the finishing line is moved, no matter how heavy or unpleasant the terrain, you pick yourself up and, ever more determinedly, keep on going. Until one day, you pray, you might just make it ...'

The Stork Club is Imogen Edwards-Jones's very personal, moving and hilariously honest memoir of her (and her husband's) attempts to conceive. Poked and prodded by endless medical professionals, pumped full of an exotic cocktail of drugs and forced to try to have sex at the most inopportune moments, Imogen pulls no punches in her account of this gruelling process, which includes fertility pills, artificial insemination, IVF and a voyage to the cutting edge of infertility treatment. Funny and heartbreaking, this is an accurate, poignant account of one woman's traumatic road to motherhood.

Based on Imogen's hugely successful Daily Telegraph column - 'Shall I Be a Mother?' - The Stork Club is a truly life-enhancing read, proof positive that there's light at the end of the darkest tunnels ...

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Bantam Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0593056086
• ISBN 13: 9780593056080
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile