Adrift

''The world is not neatly divided into two camps of women, those who wanted to reproduce and did, and those who didn''t want to, and didn''t. So many of us are caught here, in between, neither one thing nor the other, drifting towards a receding horizon, in our own camp . . .''

When Miranda Ward and her husband decided to have a baby, they were optimistic. There was no reason not to be: they were b...