When the novelist was faced with the decision of whether to pursue fertility treatment or focus on her career, her literary ambitions kicked in When the novelist was faced with the decision of whether to pursue fertility treatment or focus on her career, her literary ambitions kicked in F ifteen years ago, having said all my life that I never wanted a baby, that I couldn’t fathom why any free woman would do such a thing to her body and her mind, I suddenly and passionately wanted a child. I