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What others are saying:

“In this memoir of love and loss, Lisa Manterfield dares to reveal the depths of her desperation, and in so doing, dares to reveal the depths of her heart.”
~ Jennie Nash, author of
The Victoria’s Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming
and Other Lessons I Learned From Breast Cancer

“Lisa tackles a taboo subject with candor and aplomb. Her voice is a welcome sanity check for women left to wonder how society became so fixated on motherhood.”
~ Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, author of
Silent Sorority: A (Barren) Woman Gets Busy, Angry, Lost and Found

“Be ready for boldness. This writer doesn’t do sugarcoating. Hip Hip Hooray to her for telling it like it is, and also for seeing this very important story through to a book.”
~Sonja Lewis, author of
The Barrenness

I couldn't wait. I downloaded it, read it, and I LOVED LOVED LOVED IT!!!! Did I mention I loved it??? I'll be buying copies for family and friends. Not only is it poignant, it is a beautiful love story! Can't wait for it to come out in print so I can read it again with my husband.”
~Sue P.
member, Life Without Baby

“The book was so much more than an infertility story. It was an account of real life and the barrage of situations women face in adulthood. I hope many women will read this and feel comforted, whether they have faced infertility or not.”
~Lily Hay, creator of
The Infertile Mind

I’m Taking My Eggs and Going Home:

How One Woman Dared to Say No to Motherhood

Reviews:

The Beach Reporter

Amazon.com

Silent Sorority

The Road Less Travelled

Now available in bookstores!

This gritty, honest memoir traces Manterfield’s descent from rational 21st century woman to desperate mama-wannabe. She examines the siren song of motherhood and the truth about being childless in a mom-centric society. But this isn’t another infertility story with a miracle baby ending; this is a story about love, desire, and choices. It is the story of a woman who escapes her addiction, not with a baby, but with her sanity, marriage, and sense-of-self intact.

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