Fifteen Percent Pregnant

Tony Hardy is 43 and trying to become a dad for the first time. He is typical of those self-absorbed 40-somethings who live in the cashed-up inner suburbs. Delaying fatherhood wasn’t a conscious act for Tony. Neither was getting older. 

When he and his girlfriend struggle to start a family, he is forced to grow up. They commit to IVF and Tony is forced to refl ect on his non-existent relationship with his father and whether he truly wants to be a dad. He is stuck. He is a man in the foetal position hoping to make a foetus. 

Fifteen Percent Pregnant is an honest, confronting and funny book about a man’s reflections on all things, while watching the girl he loves be pushed, prodded and hypnotised through IVF. Tony critiques childhood, sex, career, tarot cards, a women’s pain tolerance versus his own, pregnancy, money, funerals and true love.