The Hollow Heart: The True Story of One Woman's Desire to Give Life and how it Almost Destroyed Her OwnIn three attempts at in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) Martin Devlin lost nine embryos. But she also lost her marriage and her dreams of becoming a mother. The Hollow Heart describes Devlin's bewilderment at being diagnosed as infertile, the physical and emotional demands of going through IVF and the shattering fall-out when it failed. She also describes how her despair eventually faded, and how she learned to take pleasure in her extended family of nieces and nephews and, as her mother always advised, to count her blessings. And in enumerating them I am struck by this. Their quantity. |
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... Covent Garden haunt . I didn't believe it then - I regarded it as one of those superficially clever remarks that didn't bear scrutiny but the observation stayed with me and I was starting to think there might be some truth in it . I'm ...
... Covent Garden haunt . I didn't believe it then - I regarded it as one of those superficially clever remarks that didn't bear scrutiny but the observation stayed with me and I was starting to think there might be some truth in it . I'm ...
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... Covent Garden make of it all now ? Most of them were married and rearing their families . Making it work . But doing that had been tougher than either Brendan or I had anticipated , once we discovered we could not inhabit the life we ...
... Covent Garden make of it all now ? Most of them were married and rearing their families . Making it work . But doing that had been tougher than either Brendan or I had anticipated , once we discovered we could not inhabit the life we ...
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... Covent Garden set . ' He was besotted by you , ' she reminisced . ' He was single - minded about pursuing you . ' I wondered at this . Then I summoned up one of our early days together , when we were still at the falling in love stage ...
... Covent Garden set . ' He was besotted by you , ' she reminisced . ' He was single - minded about pursuing you . ' I wondered at this . Then I summoned up one of our early days together , when we were still at the falling in love stage ...
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