Emily Phillips

Emily Phillips is a British author of contemporary fiction. Trying is a novel that explores the deeply personal and emotionally charged experience of trying to conceive, capturing the hope, heartbreak, frustration and strain on relationships that accompany fertility struggles. Phillips writes about a subject that affects millions of people but is still too rarely explored in fiction, bringing sensitivity, honesty and a refusal to sentimentalise to a story that many readers will recognise from their own lives. The novel has been praised for its authentic portrayal of a subject that can be isolating and taboo, giving voice to experiences that deserve to be heard and understood. Her audiobooks and books offer readers fiction that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.