Making Finn: One couple's unconventional journey to motherhood
  • Published: 24 July 2013
  • ISBN: 9780143530633
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 184
  • RRP: $26.00
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Making Finn: One couple's unconventional journey to motherhood

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Told with disarming honesty, Making Finn is a warm, witty and moving first-person account of two women's quest to create a family.

Susan's childhood dream of becoming a mother has not diminished with the revelation, alarming both to herself and her bewildered family, that she does, in fact, 'bat for the other team'. Having made peace with her identity and having finally found a beloved partner, she is now faced with a daunting problem: with no penis around, how the hell do you make babies?
Time is of the essence: at 34 years old, Susan cannot afford to waste another moment. And so begins an unconventional journey to parenthood with some agonising decisions along the way. Should she accept help from a close and willing friend or go the anonymous sperm donor route? What are the legal and psychological implications of her options? How will her child be affected?
Told with disarming honesty, Making Finn is a warm, witty and moving first-person account of two women's quest to create a family.
  • Published: 24 July 2013
  • ISBN: 9780143530633
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 184
  • RRP: $26.00
Categories:

About the author

Susan Newham-Blake

Susan Newham-Blake is a writer based in Cape Town. For the past 14 years she has worked as a magazine journalist and editor, editing a number of customer magazines including the Clicks ClubCard magazine.

Susan has been published in a variety of women's magazines including Marie Claire, Femina and Women's Health. She has also been published in the anthology Just Keep Breathing (Jacana), a collection of short stories.

She is currently editorial director at TPP, a magazine publishing company, and lives in Cape Town with her wife, two sons and two cats. She writes when she can.

Making Finn (Penguin, 2013) is her first book.