A psychotherapist once told me that around half her patients were middle-aged women trying to come to terms with not having children.
As someone who almost missed motherhood myself, I was struck by this and began wondering why my generation of female oldies had been so easily seduced by the idea of having it all when, simply, we could not.
When I arrived at Cambridge University at the end of the Seventies, there were still far fewer women than men. Those of us
