Maria Climent

A memoir as accurate as it is blatant about the odyssey of infertility.

In first person Maria Climent describes the bewildering journey she embarked on from the moment she decided to become a mother. Having renounced looking for an ideal partner to share a life plan with, she put herself in the hands of a fertility clinic. From then on, she found herself facing an ordeal of diagnoses, injections, medication, assisted reproduction treatment, beta waits and miscarriages, with hope followed by disappointment, misunderstandings and loneliness.

In a country with a very low birth rate, infertility is nonetheless seen as a personal problem, circumscribed to single women and couples who want to have children. Maria Climent discusses the many challenges and taboos she had to cope with, such as the prohibitive cost of treatment and the need to talk openly about a major issue that affects a large part of the population.