A review by childfreebooks
Not Married, Not Bothered by Carol Clewlow

3.0

I was excited about this book, the main character is childfree, single, and in her 50s, and we don't get many books like that. This book is fully focused on that specific thematics. Reading this was at times a delight and at times a disappointment. Delight for celebrating childfree and single life with grit, rebellion, and humour, and  the ambivalence wasn't avoided either. Disappointed that childless women were decipted as sad bitter losers - it's ironic that the childfree main character is judging childless the same way others judge her childfree status, when the entire book is defending alternative lifepaths. There was also not much understanding for disabilities (not the same as ugly!), misinformation about endometriosis (majority of people with endo do get pregnant and become parents even if infertility rates are higher than in general population), and the chapter about being gay and nature/nurture was strange. The book was published in 2005 so maybe it hasn't aged well. Also it was said they were writing an unlikeable character so was it intentional? Trigger warnings: surprise pregnancy and abortion