Trying
A Memoir
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verve Books
Publishing:27th Nov '25
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 27th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Everyone loves a story about people who beat the odds. But what about those who didn\'t?
In the years she spent hoping to conceive a child with her husband, Chloé Caldwell consumed everything she could find on infertility. No matter the book or reddit forum, her experiences seemed absent amid stories of IVF and miracle babies.
Bouncing between her job at a boutique selling \'life-changing pants\' and the fertility clinic offering \'innovative ways to create your family\', Caldwell ignored the sense that something else in her life was wrong - until she extracted a confession from her husband.
In this candid and intimate memoir, Caldwell confronts the irresolution and uncertainty of those denied their deepest desire to become a mother and discovers how, even in the depths of grief, new pleasures and possibilities can be found.
What begins as an account of trying to create life becomes a bold and brave journey to rebuild one\'s own.
At once hilarious and heartbreaking, Trying reveals how, even when life blows up, sometimes it\'s only the beginning.
Trying moved me and consumed me; it's a great gutting swirl of grief and freedom and vitality. A searing whispered vision. I am grateful for it -- Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story
Caldwell describes desire like no one else... Every sentence is intimate and stunning, and it will take you weeks from when you arrive at the end of this book to extricate yourself from Caldwell's brain, to separate your thoughts from hers, to even want to... In Trying, Caldwell exposes the messiness of growth, forgiveness, and moving on -- Jill Louise Busby, author of Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity
In Trying, Caldwell begins and ends alone. A process of creation is thwarted. She repeats the cycle over and over until a rupture ensures it cannot be repeated again. When I finished reading the book, I began it again. I found pleasure in the limbo, in the between. I wanted to be in Caldwell's language forever -- LA Warman, author of Dust and Whore Foods
Caldwell's compact and wide-ranging musings are wry, surprising, and fresh -- Amy Fusselman, author of The Means
A sly memoir of self-discovery and loss. It is an ode to the countless ways that we try: to love, to forgive, to heal, to parent, to grieve, to rebuild a life. What a humane and vulnerable book -- Isle McElroy, author of People Collide
ISBN: 9780857309365
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
192 pages