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Radio 4,1 min

"The abyss is the possibility that, ok, I am not going to be a mother"

Woman's Hour

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Australian novelist Julia Leigh on her experience deciding when to stop IVF treatment, the IVF industry, and why she, as a writer of fiction, felt compelled on this occasion to document her own life.

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