Podcast: Alexandra Collier on Navigating Motherhood Alone

Podcast: Alexandra Collier on Navigating Motherhood Alone

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Alexandra Collier talks to Cheryl about her decision to have a child on her own terms and how she navigates motherhood alone. Her memoir, Inconceivable, is out now.

About the author:

Alexandra Collier is an award-winning writer who has written for theatre, screen and print. Her writing has appeared in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian. She lived in New York for a decade where her work was produced Off Broadway, including Triplight, a musical written with ARIA award-winning composer Greta Gertler Gold, and her plays Underland and Take Me Home. Her play Holy Day was a finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, she is a MacDowell fellow and a winner of the RE Ross Trust Playwrights Award. She lives by the bay in Melbourne with her son. This is her first book.

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5 April 2023

An Exploration of Modern Motherhood: Read Our Review of Inconceivable by Alexandra Collier

    A Witty and Warm Memoir: Read an Extract from Inconceivable by Alexandra Collier

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    4 April 2023

    A Witty and Warm Memoir: Read an Extract from Inconceivable by Alexandra Collier

      Publisher details

      Inconceivable
      Author
      Alexandra Collier
      Publisher
      Hachette
      Genre
      Biography and Memoir
      Released
      29 March, 2023
      ISBN
      9780733648250

      Synopsis

      Alexandra Collier was a writer living in a light-filled Brooklyn brownstone in New York with the man she loved. But when she woke up to a ravenous hunger to have a baby that her partner didn't share, her life took a sharp turn.

      She found herself back in Melbourne at 37, single, heartbroken and living with her parents.

      Ally began dating with dedication, with sometimes hilarious and often soul-crushing results. Like many 30-something single women, though, she found that her reproductive timeline was rapidly outpacing her romantic life. So she began to explore a controversial option: conceiving a baby with donor sperm.

      Insightful, moving and relatable, this is an uplifting memoir about taking hold of your own future.

      Alexandra Collier
      About the author

      Alexandra Collier

      Alexandra Collier is an award-winning writer who has written for theatre, screen and print. Her writing has appeared in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian. She lived in New York for a decade where her work was produced Off Broadway, including Triplight, a musical written with ARIA award-winning composer Greta Gertler Gold, and her plays Underland and Take Me Home. Her play Holy Day was a finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, she is a MacDowell fellow and a winner of the RE Ross Trust Playwrights Award. She lives by the bay in Melbourne with her son. This is her first book.

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