Finding Joy Beyond Childlessness - Lesley Pyne

For so many, being childless by circumstance means that true feelings of grief and disappointment have been denied or locked away to survive everyday life. This book, aims to make readers face up to those locked away feelings in order to become who they truly want to be and therefore experience fulfilment.

Brixton Beach - Roma Tearne

In trying to move on from our infertility, we have sometimes ref erred to others being even less fortunate than ourselves. On holiday recently, I read a wonderful book called ‘Brixton Beach’ which is essentially about the effects of civil war on human lives.

I'm Taking My Eggs and Going Home - Lisa Manterfield

Although I’ve been in a book group for around ten years I haven’t put pen to paper about a book since doing A Level English at school, which is longer ago than I care to mention!

Living the Life Unexpected - Jody Day

This book is not like any other book on childlessness that I have read.  It isn’t a personal journey story but a self-help book on power with ‘Feel the Fear and do it Anyway’ or ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ but for ‘us’.

Rocking the Life Unexpected - Jody Day

The book is full of thoughts, ideas, experiences, reflections, that Jody uses to help explain why women who are childless have such a hard time in our society, and how to change that for ourselves, so it very much combines the personal with the political.

Silent Sorority: A Barren Woman Gets Busy, Angry, Lost and Found - Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos

This book is written as a chronological account about Pamela’s personal experience of childlessness, covering the difficult topics of assisted reproduction, relationship stress, miscarriage, and it also touches on adoption.

Swimming - Enza Gandolfo

Kate, the main character, is a teacher, writer and swimmer.The book is a clever combination of two books. The main part, written in the first person, is Kate’s story about her own struggle with conception, the miscarriages which follow and ultimately the breakdown of her marriage.

The Hollow Heart - Martina Devlin

Martina Devlin’s book is her own deeply personal journey through not only her infertility diagnosis, three traumatic cycles of IVF and the loss of her ‘maybe babies’, but also the loss of her marriage, the end of her dreams of becoming a mother and trying to come to terms with that in her own way.

The Puppy that came for Christmas - Megan Rix

At the same time as embarking on difficult and traumatic fertility treatment, Megan and Ian became involved with a charity which provides helper dogs to people with disabilities. And into their home one day came Emma, a soft, sweet-natured puppy with whom they fell instantly in love.

When You Can’t Have Kids - Kate Bettison

The blurb to this new book on childlessness is every apt – Kate Bettison ‘never doubted that she would be a mother one day… but 3 rounds of IVF …brought the reality of infertility and the challenges of adapting to a new life – a life without kids.

Your Best Year Yet - Jenny Ditzler

How many of us make New Year Resolutions after Christmas (e.g. lose weight, get a new job or a new relationship) only to see them barely last to the end of January? That was me for most of my life! However, when we gave up trying to have a family, it felt important for me to shake off my feelings of failure and enjoy success in other areas of my life.