21 miles : swimming in search of the meaning of motherhood / Jessica Hepburn.

"After a decade of trying to become a mother - eleven rounds of unsuccessful IVF, multiple miscarriages and a pregnancy which proved almost fatal - Jessica Hepburn knew it was time to do something different. Something BIG. So she decided to swim the twenty-one miles from England to France across the English Channel - no easy feat, especially for someone with an aversion to exercise who couldn't swim very well. As the punishing training commenced, Jessica learned you need to put on weight to stave off the cold. And this led to another idea: what if she wrote to a collection of inspiring women, asking if they would meet and eat with her to answer the question - does motherhood make you happy?"--Provided by publisher.