I’m struggling to find books where throughout the duration of the story the female characters are just happy being child free and poss. single. Even if she starts off being single she ends up with a partner by the end, or if she starts the book being child free with her partner, they end up pregnant or if she’s single she decides to look at sperm donors/ adoption etc…. I just want to read some stories that aren’t centred around this societal expectation.
Any ideas please?🙏
by andiefluff
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Stephen King has a recurring character named Holly Gibney. She starts off as a minor character in the Bill Hodges trilogy, but goes on to her own lead roles in The Outsider, Holly, and Never Flinch. She’s also in a short story in the If It Bleeds collection.
Next Year For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson
The Vera series by Ann Cleves. There are moments where she thinks of what might have been if her love (I can’t remember them exact status, if it was boyfriend, fiance et cetera) hadn’t died when she was much younger, but for the most part she is content being single and largely alone.
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes has a character like that! Also Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J Ryan Stradal doesn’t follow any sort of child-related storylines