Maeve Binchy (2013)
“She and Gordon were bitterly disappointed, but as time went on they remained so occupied with writing their books that some friends of theirs believed at first that they were childless by choice, which wasn’t so.
She approached the problem as she approached everything else that beset her in life: positively and pragmatically. The facts were that fertility treatment just wasn’t good in the late 1970s and adoption wasn’t possible after forty.She rehearsed the whole panoply of problems attache...d to childless marriage in her novels. In The Copper Beech, the Kellys discover that it isn’t easy to be a childless woman in a small town; Nora Kelly ‘had been aware of the sideways glances for some time’. That God gave more and more children to the Brennans and the Dunnes when they couldn’t feed or care for them while he passed Nora by was further evidence, she thought, that God wasn’t operating in the world. But at the same time, Nora hears that childless couples do often grow very close to one another – there being no distractions of family.MoreLess
She approached the problem as she approached everything else that beset her in life: positively and pragmatically. The facts were that fertility treatment just wasn’t good in the late 1970s and adoption wasn’t possible after forty.She rehearsed the whole panoply of problems attache...d to childless marriage in her novels. In The Copper Beech, the Kellys discover that it isn’t easy to be a childless woman in a small town; Nora Kelly ‘had been aware of the sideways glances for some time’. That God gave more and more children to the Brennans and the Dunnes when they couldn’t feed or care for them while he passed Nora by was further evidence, she thought, that God wasn’t operating in the world. But at the same time, Nora hears that childless couples do often grow very close to one another – there being no distractions of family.MoreLess
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