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A profound and honest anthology in which twenty-two writers share everyday experiences from their pursuit of parenthood. No One Talks About This Stuff is a support group for almost-parents: it is a place to share journeys of loss and limbo, to confront social pressure and to find courage in the darkness of tragedies which happen every day yet are brushed under the carpet. So, we hear from a stepmother who wrestles with infertility. A husband and wife each tell their experience of losing their baby. A lesbian comes of age at a time when gay people rarely become parents. A father finds loss to be his unlikely superpower. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder impacts a person's choices about having a family. A black woman unpacks ancestral shame while finding renewed purpose. And each person shares how they lived through it. This captivatingly beautiful, profound and honest anthology opens a much-needed conversation about society, family and honouring the missing children we will never forget.

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"""Shining a warm light on the stories that should never have sat in the shadows. Each generously shared experience powerfully validates and chips away at shame, as it speaks the truth of hoping, waiting, losing, loving and questioning. This book welcomes knowing nods, valuable insight, and hope to those who are tired of sitting behind the taboo. Life affirming, searingly honest and deeply moving."" -- Anna Mathur, bestselling author of Know Your Worth ""Kat's raw, honest and open book - with her words and those of her contributors - will allow you to find the peace, the rage, the acceptance, the anger, the love, the hatred, the joy and the connection that we all need to be allowed to feel when life deals us an unexpected and unfair hand. Kat could not have described NOTATS more perfectly by saying it is a support group in a book; it is that, and so much more."" -- Pippa Vosner, author of Beyond Grief ""Kat Brown's constellation of stories explores the persistently misunderstood experience of reproductive loss. The voices of the contributors are necessarily varied, but they are unified by fascinating and moving insights."" -- Julia Bueno, author of The Brink of Being"

""The heartrending stories capture the sorrow and despair that accompany unsuccessful attempts to have children, even as they illuminate the many roads to acceptance after pain. Readers will want to keep tissues at the ready."" -- Publishers Weekly ""[F]rank, humorous essays about facing infertility, pregnancy loss, and childlessness....With entries that are somber, angry, and wry...No One Talks About This Stuff addresses the feelings of shame and sadness that accompany atypical experiences with parenthood."" -- Rebecca Foster, Foreword ""Shining a warm light on the stories that should never have sat in the shadows. Each generously shared experience powerfully validates and chips away at shame, as it speaks the truth of hoping, waiting, losing, loving and questioning. This book welcomes knowing nods, valuable insight, and hope to those who are tired of sitting behind the taboo. Life affirming, searingly honest and deeply moving."" -- Anna Mathur, bestselling author of Know Your Worth ""Kat's raw, honest and open book - with her words and those of her contributors - will allow you to find the peace, the rage, the acceptance, the anger, the love, the hatred, the joy and the connection that we all need to be allowed to feel when life deals us an unexpected and unfair hand. Kat could not have described NOTATS more perfectly by saying it is a support group in a book; it is that, and so much more."" -- Pippa Vosner, author of Beyond Grief ""Kat Brown's constellation of stories explores the persistently misunderstood experience of reproductive loss. The voices of the contributors are necessarily varied, but they are unified by fascinating and moving insights."" -- Julia Bueno, author of The Brink of Being

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Kat Brown is a freelance journalist and commentator whose work, covering arts and entertainment as well as her experience with infertility and adult ADHD diagnosis, has appeared across national print and broadcast. She has published two books within one month of each other (which is very ADHD), No One Talks About This Stuff (ed.) and It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult. She loves horse riding, tarot, and quizzes, and captained The Jillies on BBC Two's Only Connect - arguably the greatest quiz show in existence. Kat lives in south London with her husband, their dog, and two appalling cats.

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