Chloe Caldwell – författare

‘A beautiful read / a perfect primer for an explosive lesbian affair / an essential truth’ LENA DUNHAM The cult-classic novella that intimately explores one young writer’s whirlwind and whiplash affair as she falls deeply in love with a woman for the first time. One of Cosmopolitan UK's Best Erotic Novels of All Time ‘I have meditated repeatedly on what it was about Finn that had me so dismantled.' A young woman moves from the countryside to the city.Inexplicably, inexorably and immediately, she falls in love with another woman for the first time in her life.Finn is nineteen years older than her, wears men’s clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile – and a long-term girlfriend.With precision, wit and tenderness, Women charts the frenzy and the fall out of love. 'You'll devour it in one sitting'VOGUE 'Her prose has a reckless beauty that feels to me like magic' CHERYL STRAYED'A contemporary classic of queer women's writing' MICHELLE TEA

Everyone loves a story about people who beat the odds. But what about those who didn't?In the years she spent hoping to conceive a child with her husband, Chloé Caldwell consumed everything she could find on infertility. No matter the book or reddit forum, her experiences seemed absent amid stories of IVF and miracle babies.Bouncing between her job at a boutique selling 'life-changing pants' and the fertility clinic offering 'innovative ways to create your family', Caldwell ignored the sense that something else in her life was wrong - until she extracted a confession from her husband.In this candid and intimate memoir, Caldwell confronts the irresolution and uncertainty of those denied their deepest desire to become a mother and discovers how, even in the depths of grief, new pleasures and possibilities can be found.What begins as an account of trying to create life becomes a bold and brave journey to rebuild one's own.At once hilarious and heartbreaking, Trying reveals how, even when life blows up, sometimes it's only the beginning.