336 HOURS
by Rachel Cartan
Genre: ‘Based on the author’s true life
experiences, 336 Hours is a humorous and poignant diary about one
woman’s quest to be a mother.’
Release
Date: 13th
February 2017
Publisher:
SilverWood Books
The next 336 hours will be tough. No,
the next 336 hours will be really tough…
I feel like an Olympian, waiting to see
whether the years of hard work, sacrifice and dedication are finally going to
pay off, or whether my body is about to fail me at the last hurdle and make me
wonder why I ever hoped I could win.
My best friend is pregnant, my single
friends are planning their pregnancies and, after five long years of tests and
investigations, I’m coming to the end of my third – and supposedly final – IVF
treatment. There are 336 hours to survive before I’ll know if I get to join the
motherhood club. That’s 224 waking hours of pure psychological torture. 112
sleeping hours to stare at the ceiling and wonder, what the hell am I going to
do with my life if it turns out I can’t have kids?
Based on the author’s true life
experiences, 336 Hours is a humorous and poignant diary about one
woman’s quest to be a mother.
Extract
I
can’t pretend to have a clue what she means, of course. I don’t know what it’s
like to have little people shouting, ‘Mummy! Mummy! MUUMMEEE!’ all day long, to
never be able to go for a wee on your own, to make spaghetti bolognese and then
watch your dinner dates tip it straight over their heads, to stay up all night
comforting a teething toddler, to spend hours coercing and pleading with very
small people to put shoes and coats on so you can at last leave the fucking
house.
But I want
to know this life. Because that stuff gives you stories, first-hand
experiences, and the right to exchange knowing smiles of solidarity with other
frazzled parents as you all manoeuvre your wayward shopping trolleys around the
aisles of Tesco.
And it
comes with other stuff, too: the good stuff.
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ABOUT RACHEL CATHAN
RACHEL
CATHAN is a writer from Bedfordshire. In 2001, a mutual friend introduced her
to a part-time pub DJ in Southend-on-Sea. A month later, they had moved in
together, around seven years later they tied the knot, and a little while after
that – just like so many couples before them – they made the exciting and
terrifying decision to start a family. And then, like a growing number of
couples today, well...not a lot happened.
Throughout
the subsequent years of fertility investigations and failed treatments, Rachel
kept a diary of her experiences, and it’s from these first- hand encounters in
the world of infertility and IVF that her first book, 336 Hours has been
adapted.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rachelcathan
Goodreads
Author Page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33350325-336-hours?from_search=true.
Website: http://www.rachelcathan.co.uk
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