Inconceivable, Alexandra Collier
Inconceivable, Alexandra Collier
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Inconceivable
Heartbreak, bad dates and finding solo motherhood

Author: Alexandra Collier

Narrator: Fiona Macleod

Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/29/2023

Synopsis

Alexandra Collier was a writer living in a light-filled Brooklyn brownstone in New York with the man she loved. But when she woke up to a ravenous hunger to have a baby that her partner didn't share, she had to make a choice between love or a future family.

She chose family, which catapulted her life back to Melbourne where, at 37, she found herself single, heartbroken and living with her parents.

Ally began dating with dedication with sometimes hilarious and often soul-crushing results. But like many single women approaching 40, she found that her reproductive timeline was rapidly outpacing her romantic life. So she began to explore another controversial option: conceiving a baby with donor sperm.

From defying her family's expectations to searching for sperm and navigating pregnancy alone, Ally deftly takes us through the ecstatic, complicated and demanding path to becoming a solo mother by choice.

'An inspiring and necessary book that challenges the narratives we set for our lives and reveals the beauty beyond them' CLEMENTINE FORD

About Alexandra Collier

Alexandra Collier is an award-winning writer who has written for theatre, screen and print. Her writing has appeared in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian. She lived in New York for a decade where her work was produced Off Broadway, including Triplight, a musical written with ARIA award-winning composer Greta Gertler Gold, and her plays Underland and Take Me Home. Her play Holy Day was a finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, she is a MacDowell fellow and a winner of the RE Ross Trust Playwrights Award. She lives by the bay in Melbourne with her son. This is her first book.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Molly on October 05, 2024

This book had me sobbing. Written by the CEO of the concussion clinic I work at - a true testament to the strength and resiliency of women.......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on June 22, 2021

Inconceivable is Alex Johnston’s memoir of her difficult path to parenthood. She details her struggle with infertility, her IVF attempts, the devastating loss of her first child, the successful surrogacies that gave her two daughters and the surprise of her own pregnancy that saw her deliver a son.......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on May 21, 2021

Inconceivable is a memoir about the author's journey through infertility. Alex Johnston was in her 30's when she realized she would need some help having a child. She and her husband both really wanted to be parents so they started down the path of fertility treatments. They started with IUI and the......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on May 10, 2021

Content warnings: Full-term stillbirth, infertility’s effect on mental health, medical details re: fertility treatments Inconceivable is Alex Johnston’s account of her journey through infertility, IVF, and surrogacy. Johnston openly shares the realities of every step of the process – medical procedur......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on March 03, 2021

Heartbreaking, emotional and informative, Inconceivable, the story of Alex Johnston’s tragic road to motherhood, is a must read for young women planning to have children. Alex, a lawyer, was 34 when she and her husband David decided to start a family. After months of trying, they consulted a fertili......more

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