An exciting and thought-provoking memoir about family in all its forms. When Rebecca Coxon uploaded her genetic data to an ancestry website in 2016, she had no idea that she was sparking a chain reaction of unravelling secrets that would come to redefine everything she thought she knew about identity and the meaning of family. A deeply honest and raw work, Inconceivable charts Rebecca''s phenomenal story - as both product and patient of IVF, donor-conceived and a donor herself - and provides an intimate lens into the consequences of our choices about how we create new life. It is a moving portrait of how secrets can break and remake us, and how love can transcend decades of stigma and shame. Timely and timeless, Inconceivable will also interweave Rebecca''s own experience with those of famous figures - Marilyn Monroe, Frida Kahlo, Hilary Mantel, Lena Dunham and her biblical namesake - whose lives and work were shaped in some way by infertility.

Autorentext

Rebecca is a television documentary director with a background in investigative journalism. She won the 'Debut Director' award at Edinburgh TV Festival's New Voice Awards in 2020. Her credits include: BBC Panorama, 24 Hours in Police Custody and Ambulance.

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A beautiful and timeless memoir about family in all its forms, from television documentary director, Rebecca Coxon.

'Moving, courageous, enlightening' ELIZABETH DAY

'My family tree is not simple; my lineage is not linear. There are the branches we see and the roots we do not. Not all bloodlines flow with blood.'

When Rebecca Coxon uploaded her genetic data to an ancestry website, she had no idea of the chain reaction it would spark. Confronted by the shocking discovery that her father was not biologically related to her, the secrets revealed by her genes would alter her understanding of identity and family forever.

In this deeply honest and intimate memoir, Rebecca - a donor-conceived IVF triplet who has donated her eggs and undergone fertility treatment herself - shares her remarkable story. It's one of family secrets, shame, resilience and warmth, offering a profound glimpse into the consequences of how we choose to create new life.

Written with nuance and tenderness, Inconceivableis a beautiful meditation on our place within history and the wider universe and, above all else, a love letter to family in all its forms.