Emma Gannon

you know, it is like the millennial generation, I feel that has said openly, I don't want to have children, but also finding that conversation difficult to have with their parents who expected to be a grandparent, you know, like the disappointment of being a woman who doesn't want children.

People love to say you'll change your mind.

They love to scaremonger you and say you're gonna sort of die a lonely death.

And I, as I get older, I'm so happy with my decision more and more.

I mean, I love this topic because it's something that I am witnessing, I guess, as a trend

You know, it is like the millennial generation, I feel, that has said, openly, I don't want to have children, but also finding that conversation difficult to have with their parents who...

expected to be a grandparent you know like the disappointment of being a woman who doesn't want children I don't want children I've always known it's such a choice for me I've known since my early 20s that it's not going to be for me and I loved exploring it through fiction because I could just put it all out there without committing myself to the page because people love to say you'll change your mind they love to scaremonger you and say you're gonna sort of die a lonely death and um

I, as I get older, I'm so happy with my decision more and more.

It's something I feel so much more certain with.

And I, to be honest, I wanted to connect with other women around this topic as well.

Definitely.

I think that's why I write, honestly, because I want to connect and connect.

start conversations I love it when a book like gets people going and what was so funny about the response of this book is either people felt so seen by it you know it's the first protagonist a lot of people had read in a book about a child free by choice woman they're normally the side character they're normally the sister it's like no this is this is a book called Olive about a child free by choice woman and

But some people also didn't like her and called her selfish and called her, you know, someone that's like self-indulgent and wants to take up so much space in her life.

And I think that's still a taboo.

You know, women that want to really live on their own terms, like fully do whatever they want.

That's new.

Women for history have had to do what other people want them to do.

And I think, you know, it's good to talk about it.

I think one big one for me was the assumption that if you're not going to have kids, you're going to be this high-flying career woman.