Podcast: Charlene Carr on IVF, Motherhood and Identity

Podcast: Charlene Carr on IVF, Motherhood and Identity

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Charlene Carr talks to Cheryl about her IVF experience and how it inspired Hold My Girl, her gripping, heart-wrenching novel which is out now.

About the author:

Charlene Carr spent much of her childhood creating elaborate, multi-faceted storylines for her dolls and reading under the blankets with a flashlight when she was supposed to be asleep. A bit of a nomad, she’s lived in four countries and seven Canadian provinces. After working an array of mostly writing related jobs, she decided the time had come to focus exclusively on her true love – novel writing. She lives in Nova Scotia with her husband and daughter. Hold My Girl is her tenth novel, and she recently received a Canada Council for the Arts grant to revise her next novel.

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Publisher details

Hold My Girl
Author
Charlene Carr
Publisher
Welbeck
Genre
Fiction
Released
28 February, 2023
ISBN
9781802793321

Synopsis

This tense and emotional novel follows the fallout after two women's eggs are switched during IVF.TWO WOMEN. ONE BABY. A FIGHT LIKE NO OTHER.Katherine has everything under control.After years of struggling to conceive with her partner, Patrick, she finally gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child. But she's afraid that Rose may not be her daughter, her pale skin not matching Katherine's own.Tess never got her happy ending.Just like Katherine, she was also a hopeful IVF mother, but her daughter, Hanna, was stillborn. Now divorced, broke and stuck in a dead-end job, she's beginning to lose all hope.But when Rose is ten months old, both women get a call from the fertility clinic. There was a mistake: their eggs were switched.It will take a custody battle like no other to decide who will get to be Rose's mother - a battle that will push them both to the brink...This is a story about what it means to be a mother, and the lengths we go to for the people we love
Charlene Carr
About the author

Charlene Carr

Charlene Carr spent much of her childhood creating elaborate, multi-faceted storylines for her dolls and reading under the blankets with a flashlight when she was supposed to be asleep. A bit of a nomad, she's lived in four countries and seven Canadian provinces. After working an array of mostly writing related jobs, she decided the time had come to focus exclusively on her true love - novel writing. She lives in Nova Scotia with her husband and daughter. Hold My Girl is her tenth novel, and she recently received a Canada Council for the Arts grant to revise her next novel. 

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