Panic & Joy

My Solo Path to Motherhood

Emma Brockes

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571354818
• Year: 2019

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!). Emma needs sperm, a doctor, and not to bankrupt herself. And that's just the beginning - there are a million choices to make when taking the untraditional route to motherhood. Then there's the uninvited opinions, scolding and general hysteria that always accompanies a woman's decision to have (or not to have) children. With generous heart and humour, Panic & Joy examines essential questions about motherhood and the modern family.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Praise
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Prologue
• Chapter One: ‘Are You Going to Do It, Then?’
• Chapter Two: Origin Story
• Chapter Three: The Selfish Gene
• Chapter Four: Tubes
• Chapter Five: Sperm
• Chapter Six: January 2014
• Chapter Seven: Drugs
• Chapter Eight: Waiting
• Chapter Nine: Falling
• Chapter Ten: Rising
• Chapter Eleven: England
• Chapter Twelve: New Year’s Eve
• Chapter Thirteen: Neonatal
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Also by the Author
• Copyright