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Jessica Hepburn. 21 Miles
CONTENTS
Prologue
Notes
A List
Blue Monday
Horizontal Walking
Addicted to IVF
Can Rolls, Can’t Hepburn
Her Darling Child
AGONY!
Optimist or Pessimist?
Half a Biscuit
The Serpentine
Does Motherhood Make You Happy?
The Etiquette of Clothing
The Charity Worker ‘The important thing is you live your life authentically.’
The Scientist ‘Doing something hard and achieving it … that’s what real happiness is.’
The Old Woman of Coniston
The Very Reverend ‘I wouldn’t give up my family for my job. But I would give up my job for my family.’
Mother Tallulah
The Ballerina ‘I am conscious that I’m not hitched to anyone else’s wagon.’
Molly
A Few Words on Jellyfish
Team Toe Dip
Frankenstein Dreaming
The Polar Explorer ‘You have to look at the blessings in life.’
Where’s the Manual?
The Ray, the Jellyfish and the. Macrobiotic Mother ‘Do you want to have a baby?’
VO2 Max
The Internet Entrepreneur ‘I think life could absolutely be fulfilling without children … The tragedy is when people don’t think it can be.’
Odi et Amo
The Businesswoman ‘Grief can drive you apart.’
The Solitude of Swimming
The Filmmaker
The Filmmaker, Part II ‘You have to be happy with who you are … You’ve got to find your people.’
The Right Way Round
The Peter Pan Cup
The Iron(wo)man ‘My husband died.’
The Politician ‘“Carpe diem” – make the most of what you’ve got.’
‘Ozymandias’
The Ice Queen Foster Mother ‘They’ve all got eating problems. All of them … And I was comfort eating for something missing out of my life.’
The Parakeet
Anonymous ‘You are entitled to love a child.’
The Publisher
The Restaurateur ‘We’re all driven by selfish things. It’s just that some selfishness is good for other people and some isn’t.’
Camp Eton
The Divorce Lawyer ‘There are certain tremor lines in a marriage or catalysts to divorce and IVF is high on the list.’
Was It Because of the IVF?
So We Beat On
The Chief Constable ‘You just have to hang on to it.’
Beach Life
The General ‘Eventually your tits will scrape the sand.’
Gertrude Ederle
The Gateway Woman ‘The answer to life is to live the question.’
The Seven and Six
Ten Minutes
Dad and Mum ‘I don’t think you can call children an achievement. They’re what you’ve been given.’
The One-Week Wait
Are You Asleep Yet?
Dear Peter
The Last Supper
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Patrons
Supporters
