- Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:34 pm
#171456
From what I know of 'Miss Shriver' she is childless through choice and has given the matter of whether or not to reproduce a lot of thought; one of the inspirations for the novel (novel - it's fiction and not an expression of her non-existent bitterness at being childless) was apparently thinking about how a woman who wasn't sure about having kids would feel if she did have a child, despite being ambivalent about it, and whether her feelings would have an effect on that child. Not that that matters to Tookey I suspect.