Contents

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Cycle 18

Cycle 19

Interview 1: Hannah aka @Mumming

Cycle 20

Cycle 21

Interview 2: Lydia

Cycle 22

Cycle 23

Interview 3: Samira

Cycle 24

Cycle 25

Interview 4: Annie

Cycle 26

Cycle 27

Interview 5: Margot

Cycle 28

Cycle 29

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Emily Phillips’ two main life goals have always been: to write a book and to have a baby. As Grazia’s Features Director, she’s helped change the law to close the pay gap, written on everything from over-committing to egg donation, and interviewed the likes of Amy Poehler and Jane Birkin. Her career highlight was when Jamie Dornan told her (while taking his top off) that his murderous character in The Fall would’ve found her ‘right up his street’.

She lives in London with her husband and two cats. TRYING is her first novel.

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First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Hodder & Stoughton

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Copyright © Emily Phillips 2017

The right of Emily Phillips to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.

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For Charlie, always in it together.
And for my parents, for whom this may be TMI.