An Excellent Choice - Hardcover

Brockes, Emma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 057132746X ISBN 13: 9780571327461

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2018

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There are more and more women choosing to have children later in life, outside the confines of convention, but never before have I read our experiences so astutely conveyed ... Brockes has finally given voice to this central female experience with wit and intelligence. I'm grateful for it. (Elizabeth Day Evening Standard)

So smart and tartly charming (think "Fleabag" meets Helen Fielding) ... It's hard to fault her. (New York Times)

Brockes generously details, with wit and wisdom, how she made the decision to become a single mother and what it took to get there. (Vogue)

Funny, poignant and heartwarming. (Sunday Times, Style)

Brockes' sharp observations, about others and, relentlessly, herself, are what make the book compelling. (Irish Independent)

'At a time when conservative opposition to reproductive rights is growing, and the idea of motherhood as a woman's free choice seems increasingly under threat, [this book offers] important contributions to the arguments that continue to rage around motherhood and feminism, and how the two can be made to coexist.' (Stephanie Merritt Observer)

In An Excellent Choice, Emma Brockes says the unsayable: about women; men; dating; relationships; grief; being gay, being straight; being feminist; being an English journalist in New York and becoming a mother. What she says is also very funny. Her book is like Sex and the City for the bicurious generation. (Sharon Maguire, director of Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones’s Baby)

An Excellent Choice illuminates not one, but a whole host of still quasi-taboo topics from sperm donors to assisted reproduction. Brockes is a beautiful writer, a wonderful story-teller, and a keen observer of human nature. (Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Political Tribes)

I don't know whether to love Emma Brockes more as a writer or a human being. Why can't we all face life with her courage, grace, and shockingly good sense of humour? (Lauren Collins, author of When in French)

Reseña del editor

I mumble 'I need to order some sperm'. The receptionist puts me through to a technician to see if what I want is available. 'Number?' says the man. I give him the reference for my sperm donor. There is a clacking of keys, followed by a short pause. Then with the smoothness of a sommelier fielding a wine order at dinner, he says 'An excellent choice'. Emma Brockes is thirty-seven, lives alone, and wants children. She is in a relationship (good!) but they aren't doing the parenting together (weird!). Her partner, L, has her own child. Emma needs sperm, a doctor, and not to bankrupt herself before any child arrives. And that's just the beginning - there are a million choices to make when you are taking the untraditional route to motherhood. Is she ready to be a single mother? Is there a way of talking about any of this honestly without being too defensive or too jolly? Should the sperm donor be a writer like her, or someone with completely different talents (something equally interesting, just not too interesting ie. a mime artist)? Are high-waisted postnatal support pants essential or optional? What will her baby be to L? Will they be parallel parenting? Proximal parenting? Parenting in each other's general direction? Brockes navigates these decisions against a background of uninvited opinion, scolding, and the general hysteria that always accompanies a woman's decision to have (or not have) children. With generous heart and humour, An Excellent Choice examines essential questions about motherhood and the modern family - and asks how and why so many women are choosing to solo parent.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 057132746X
• ISBN 13: 9780571327461
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320