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Can Mr Sperm Donor be Mr Right too? The pursuit of pregnancy (and love) is a comic act in this novel
An excerpt from from ‘The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good News’, by Meghna Pant. Author Meghna Pant.
Ladoo grins at Tamara. She takes the pregnancy stick and sneaks into the small bathroom on the terrace.
She sits down on the pot, with the stick in her hand, and pees on it. She bites her nails in tension, waiting. Only one line appears. She breathes out, annoyed, and shakes the stick. She pees on it some more. The stick still shows only one line.
Chronicling with humour the courage of women willing to challenge society
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New Delhi, Feb 8 : Award-winning author and journalist Meghna Pant says she can feel the pain of women who are single or childless as they approach midlife and feel the need to tell the stories of how they are coping with this reality. I ve seen the pressure young women face by family, friends and acquaintances to have children early. I know the hell I went through on my 35th birthday as I was childless and unmarried. That s why I wrote about the panic Ladoo (the protagonist) felt when a gynaecologist told her that her eggs were drying up , and doing artificial insemination immediately was her last chance of having a baby, Pant says of her new book, The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good News that is to be published by Pengu