# Trying

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- Authors: [Mark Cossey](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-cossey)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-05-06

## Description

‘Here again, Mr Cossey?’ asked the young Spanish embryologist, shooting me a welcoming smile as I followed him down the corridor. He had recognised me by sight and that wasn’t good. I was now the one thing you don’t want to be in a fertility clinic. A regular. Martha wanted a baby. Mark wanted a baby. What’s the worst that could happen? In four years of baby-making boot camp, Mark and Martha face The Calendar, the joy of sober, scheduled sex, hostile cervical mucus, IUI and IVF. Through a combination of ignorance and outrage, Mark survives ejaculating into a small jar, stabbing his wife, having his sperm turned pink and group sex with whales. Written with genuine laugh-out-loud humour and complete honesty, Trying is a noholds-barred welcome to the world of the infertile written by a man who has lived through it all and come through with his ultimate dream realised – his own family. It says a lot when you can call two years of sleepless nights a happy ending.

## Editions

### Trying

- Publisher: summersdale_division
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-08-5765-904-0
- Published: 2013-05-06
- Language: en_GB