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Solo Mum by Choice

  • ISBN-13: 9781923105607
  • Publisher: HAWKEYE BOOKS
    Imprint: HAWKEYE BOOKS
  • By Lorena Otes
  • Price: AUD $32.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 01/05/2026
  • Format: Paperback (228.00mm X 152.00mm) 236 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Prose: non-fiction [DN]
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When dating failed. Motherhood didn’t. Solo Mum by Choice is an intimate, funny, and fiercely honest memoir about one woman’s journey to motherhood—without a partner, but with unwavering determination. After a string of failed relationships, Lorena Otes stumbles upon the growing community of women choosing to have children on their own. What follows is a deeply personal ride through IVF heartbreaks, bizarre alternative therapies, and medical mayhem—told with warmth, grit, and sharp self-awareness. Both tender and laugh-out-loud, Solo Mum by Choice is a love story between a woman and the child she refuses to give up on.
Lorena Otes is a writer and debut author of Solo Mum By Choice (previously Round After Round), which placed runner-up in the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize 2024. Her work has appeared in Feels Blind Literary, The Brussels Review, Mamamia, Bounty Parents, Witcraft Magazine and Defenestration Literary Humour Magazine, and her flash fiction has been longlisted in several national competitions. A classical and contemporary dance teacher, Bonnie Tyler fan, motorbike enthusiast, and avid reader, Lorena is also a proud solo mum by choice to her dinosaur-loving five-year-old daughter.
* Solo Mum by Choice placed Runner-up in the 2024 Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize. * The author is a TikTokker, and Lorena is a sought after interviewee by media covering stories on solo parenting and IVF. Publicity: * Alisha Burns, who runs the viral social media platform 'No Need For Prince Charming', has pledged her support to endorse the book. Michelle Galea, who runs the national Solo Mums by Choice Facebook page and website platforms, has offered to do an online launch within the solo mum community. Felicity Hetherington, the Editor in Chief of The Daily Mail, will approve a book review to be featured. * The author has a newsletter with strong engagement. * Author touring podcasts, libraries, bookstores and festivals before and after release. * Hawkeye’s publicity team: socials (Tiktok, Instagram, Facebook), paid advertising, reviewers, national media release. * Book trailer on youtube.
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