Going it alone
By: Clare Dowling
Publisher: Headline Review; Review
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780755341481; 9780755341504; 9780755341498
Subjects: Middle-aged women; Middle aged women; Fiction; Psychology; Childlessness
Description: A hilarious and romantic novel about marriage, motherhood and mid-life crises. Millies biological clock has been ticking for some time, and on the eve of her fortieth birthday the alarm bell starts ringing. She needs to have a baby and fast, but after months of fruitless trying, her husband Andrew is feeling like a walking sperm bank and their marriage is in crisis. Matters come to a head when Andrews job relocates to London and Millie decides that if he wont stick around to get her pregnant, then shell do it without him. Setting her sights on Spain, Millie embarks on a voyage of discovery.