The Underachieving Ovary, JT Lawrence
The Underachieving Ovary, JT Lawrence
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The Underachieving Ovary
A Hilarious and Heartbreaking Infertility Memoir about Love, Life, and Lazy Ovaries

Author: JT Lawrence

Narrator: Jennifer Swanepoel

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/12/2016

Synopsis



"Hilarious & Heartbreaking" ✮✮✮✮✮
Will there be light at the end of the birth canal? 
Does the word ‘endometriosis’ make you want to stick a fork in your eye? No? Then perhaps this book isn’t for you. It’s funny, and (sometimes alarmingly) frank. It contains an impressive array of synonyms for ‘vagina’ and it’s certainly NSFW.It’s about having a devil womb and a hot knife lodged in a shoulder. It’s about becoming blackly bitter and twisted in infertility, and then slowly finding a way to untwist.It’s part memoir, part dark comedy, wrapped up loosely as a journal full of TMI and quirk.Let me put it this way: If Helen Fielding and Marian Keyes were to go through IVF, and use Caitlin Moran as a surrogate, this book would be their baby.
'The Underachieving Ovary' is an honest and satisfying must-read for anyone battling endometriosis or infertility. Start reading it today.

What readers are saying:"It's real, and raw, and remarkable, with laugh-out-loud, choke-on-your-tea moments." -- Melissa Delport"This book is just so brilliantly written. So funny. So sad ... a page-turner of a suspense story: I am in awe. Should this not be an Oprah choice?" -- Erica Platter
Ready to spit tea out of your nose? Start reading now.​

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa on February 10, 2017

Bravo, JT, bravo! This book is, quite simply, a journey. It is real, and raw, and remarkable, with laugh out loud, choke-on-your-tea moments. Then there are those moments when you have to swallow the lump in your throat and go play with your kids, just because you can. Admittedly, when I first start......more

Goodreads review by Natasha on September 12, 2016

I loved reading about Janita's journey from trying to conceive with all the ups and downs of infertility until her happy ending. This book reminded me of my own struggle to fall pregnant as I also struggled with endometriosis - the ugly catch 22 situation... I loved the chapter headings, as I don't n......more

Goodreads review by Kim on September 29, 2016

I loved this book despite starting to read it with some trepidation. I wasn’t sure if I cared enough about fertility to be engaged enough to read a whole book! BUT………. it didn’t take Lawrence long to blow me away with her writing. Despite being a sceptic I was on every step of the journey with her. S......more

Goodreads review by Tracey on September 30, 2016

As Neets says, from as far back as she can remember, she has wanted to be a mother, to give birth to her baby; to hold her baby; to feed and bath and dress her baby and then she finds out she can't. Raw emotion - like when you accidentally rip the scab off a sore - is the only way to describe this bo......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on October 28, 2017

A rainy evening curled up on the couch, a hot cup of coffee (well actually 3 cups in total), and me sucked into the world of the underachieving ovary navigating the terminology and jargon which include, TTCers trying to establish texture of the CM! There's the "devil womb" and relationship anecdotes......more

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