A child-free woman

How I accidentally-on-purpose became a voice on choosing to be childfree

In the Summer of 2020 when my debut novel OLIVE first came out in hardback, I accidentally-on-purpose became a voice on choosing to be childfree. Olive is a childfree-by-choice protagonist. I knew that writing a novel about a topic would mean I was in the firing line to be asked questions — we can’t help but think the woman is writing about her persona…