Inconceivable: Heartbreak, Bad Dates and Finding Solo Motherhood is a new memoir from former AWNY member Alexandra Collier, which will be released in June by Hachette in the US. This inspiring, funny and personal debut was listed as one of the top 5 selling memoirs in Australia last year.
Alexandra Collier was an Australian 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 Australia 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’s new memoir Inconceivable deftly takes us through the ecstatic, complicated and unconventional path to becoming a solo mother by choice.
Inconceivable was released to acclaim last year in Australia and described by The Age as “An assured first book that walks the fine line between lightness and gravity” and by The Australian as “Inspiring, challenging and often very funny, Inconceivable is an important read about one woman’s choice to become a parent.”
To support an Aussie author, preorder Inconceivable today or request your independent New York bookshop stock the book. You can follow Alexandra via Instagram.
If you’re interested in reading some background to Ally’s life in New York, here is the Faces of AWNY piece that we did back in 2015.
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