Inconceivable

An exciting and thought-provoking memoir about family in all its forms. When Rebecca Coxon uploaded her genetic data to an ancestry website in 2016, she had no idea that she was sparking a chain reaction of unravelling secrets that would come to redefine everything she thought she knew about identity and the meaning of family. A deeply honest and raw work, Inconceivable charts Rebecca''s phenomenal story - as both product and patient of IVF, donor-conceived and a donor herself - and provides an intimate lens into the consequences of our choices about how we create new life. It is a moving portrait of how secrets can break and remake us, and how love can transcend decades of stigma and shame. Timely and timeless, Inconceivable will also interweave Rebecca''s own experience with those of famous figures - Marilyn Monroe, Frida Kahlo, Hilary Mantel, Lena Dunham and her biblical namesake - whose lives and work were shaped in some way by infertility.

About the author

Rebecca is a television documentary director with a background in investigative journalism. She won the 'Debut Director' award at Edinburgh TV Festival's New Voice Awards in 2020. Her credits include: BBC Panorama, 24 Hours in Police Custody and Ambulance.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Coxon
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 12.03.2026
• EAN: 9780008726355
• ISBN: 978-0-00-872635-5
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Autobiography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family, Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, Infertility & fertilization, Infertility and fertilization, HEALTH & FITNESS / Fertility & Infertility, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs