A review by heynatheynat
Olive by Emma Gannon

4.0

The story is told from the perspective of Olive who is 33 and has been friends with Bea, Cecily, and Isla since living together at university. Olive is an ambitious journalist at .dot magazine and is in a long term relationship with Jacob. When he raises the discussion about children, she explains that she doesn't want children and they break up. Her friends are settling down and either have children or are planning to have children and Olive begins to feel disconnected from them.

I loved how this book explores friendship in womanhood, infertility and motherhood at different stages. This was such a well-written book that has generated a lot of thought-provoking discussions on living childfree and how someone else's choice is not an attack on your own.

Thanks to NetGalley and Harper Collins, Harper Fiction for the ARC.