'I’ve learned that hope is like when you look at the sun for too long. First there’s light, then the light becomes too much and burns your retina: everything goes black.’

She has never told anyone about her previous pregnancies or abortions. Not even her doctors. But after four years struggling to conceive end in the loss of three babies at once, Antonella Lattanzi finally decides to share her story.

With incredible narrative force, Lattanzi explores abortion, infertility, assisted conception, a ferocious rage towards the world and a desire that will stop at nothing. Things That Go Unspoken is a novel that will resonate with anyone who has ever asked: Why is it easy for everyone else to get pregnant but me? Will I have to abandon my dreams to have a child? Do I even want to be a mother?

'Lattanzi chooses to tell her journey, extremely painful because extremely real, of the choice to be a mother first and the frightening realities of assisted fertilisation.' Maremosso

'Her story is the emblem of all those things that, it is true, are not told, but with which every woman must deal. On which every woman is weighed, judged, first of all often by herself. The sense of guilt if a woman wants children, but is afraid of losing her job. The desire to be a mother but also to be successful. The inability of men to understand.' i libri di Meg

‘A novel about two desires that often torment this female body: the desire for self-affirmation, ambition, and professional fulfillment that clashes inexorably with another all-encompassing desire: motherhood.’ Strega Prize

'A book that is too personal, too painful, to maintain the critical perspective of someone who must open it, dismantle it, explain to the reader why to read it.' Magma Magazine

'Lattanzi opens doors she doesn't want to open, reveals secrets never told, chases forgotten memories. The result is a novel that can be read in one breath.' Societá Psicoanaliticia Italiana

ISBN-13: 9781836750024

Width/Height: 129 x 198mm

Format: Paperback

Country of Origin (language): Italy

Language: Italian tr. English

Pub Date: 05/03/2026

Page Extent: 226 Pages

Price: 12.99 GBP