Trying
the hilarious novel about what to expect when you're NOT expecting
by Emily Phillips
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Pub Date 18 Oct 2018 | Archive Date 21 Nov 2018
Hodder & Stoughton | Hodder Paperbacks
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Description
'Hilarious, heartbreaking, truthful and bold' Dolly Alderton
Meet Olivia Galvin.
She knows she's lucky. There's the handsome husband. The sounds-pretty-good-on-paper job. A house they can just about afford. Loving, intrusive and completely bonkers extended family. Plus, she's having more sex than she's ever had in her life.
But the one thing she really wants seems to be the one thing she just can't seem to have...
Capturing the stress, sex and sometime hilarity of trying for a baby, Olivia's all-too-familiar battles with modern life make her question whether having it all is ever really worth it.
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Praise for Trying:
'Side-splittingly relatable' Bryony Gordon
'God it's powerful . . . Emily Phillips writes about love beautifully' Marian Keyes
'A deeply moving and raw story, told with great humour. An assured debut' Louise O'Neill
'Marian Keyes for the social media age' Sunday Telegraph
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781473663817 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 384 |
Featured Reviews
Anne H, Reviewer
The fertility time-bomb is ticking away as our heroine realises her chances of conceiving are rapidly diminishing, while friends her age are busily producing offspring and her own mum is yearning to become a grandmother. Having to cope with the pressures of a demanding career, including a bitchy boss and undermining colleagues, is not helping matters, either. The intimate process of coordinating fertility cycles with sexual desire and availability are comically described in graphic detail, but behind the ribald humour is an astute depiction of existential panic, which will strike a chord with women everywhere in the modern world who are juggling with work/life balance.
leanne w, Reviewer
Although I haven't been particularly touched by infertility, I found this book comforting and became caught up in Olivia's life as a 30 something, struggling with her choices and the need to fit in with husband kids and a good job.
A heart breaking yet laugh out loud story I absolutely loved
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