Where do babies come from? Well, when a man loves a woman, they kiss and then... But
things aren't always so straightforward, as Vanessa Bates and her loving husband found out.
With nature refusing to come to the baby party, despite the deafening tick of her biological
clock, she had plenty of time to think about family and what it means, exactly. In this
memoir, by turns laugh-out-loud funny and beautifully moving, the author reflects on her
relationship with her mother and takes us on the journey that saw her finally become a
mother herself.