I am hoping the brilliant young director will respond to my entreaty about doing my long-in-gestation Bell, Book & Candle.
Four years later, he completed The Buddha of Suburbia in which, as a sly nod to my role in its gestation, I got a walk-on part – as a policeman.
They didn't think I would survive past my second month of gestation, and if I did, they said that the delivery would cause a fatal stroke.
Days later I learned that my baby, at only five months' gestation, would not make it.
At this point in the gestation of 92 North Shore Drive, my compulsion is linens: sheets, towels, blankets, pillows, etc.
The last hemorrhage required my daughter's delivery at 23 weeks gestation and a hysterectomy and over 30 units of blood to save my life.
Hearing the strong heartbeat of my unborn daughter 14 years ago at 13 weeks gestation had a profound effect on me and my beliefs.... .. "I also believe marriage should be exclusively between one man and one woman...
Catch-22, my father's other "child" (with a gestation period of nine long years), was published that day.
The book that made my year: After a long and occasionally twitchy gestation, the publication of Tom Holland's epic retelling of the clash of ancient empires and the rise of Islam, In the Shadow of the Sword, was 90% joy and 10% sheer relief.
Fortunately, at only seven weeks' gestation, the term "medical condition" sufficed on my sick leave application form.
