Until now I thought that an impossible task. But not everyone is on board when she makes decisions that are considered less than mainstream: certainly not her obstetrician, or her best friend Hannah who is coming to terms with her own deeply buried pain, and not even the ever-supportive Dylan, who struggles to accept Amy’s decisions.Īdelaide-based author Kim Lock has written a novel that somehow does that most difficult thing – talk about pregnancy, childbirth and women’s choices without sounding preachy. She feels downright disempowered, out of control and ignored by the “best obstetrician in Darwin”.Īmy embarks on a quest to come to terms with her unplanned pregnancy and find her confidence in a system that seems destined to break her down and spit her out. The Pacifist Hippy, in love with The Gun-Toting Soldier.”īut all that changes when Amy finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and sucked up into the medicalised world of pregnancy and childbirth – a world where Amy feels more than uncomfortable. As Amy says, “Every day I live with the contradiction. Her boyfriend, Dylan Brookes, thrives in the macho environment of the Army while maintaining a love of Amy’s wilful difference. She’s organic-produce adoring, hemp-wearing nuevo-hippy. Amy Silva is not your ordinary army ‘wife’.
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