Living Expenses
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Invisible Publishing
Publishing:26th Jun '25
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 26th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

As the children of a single mother who immigrated from the Philippines, Laura and Claire have always been exceptionally close. That is, until Claire moves to San Francisco for a startup job in Silicon Valley while Laura and her husband remain in Toronto and decide to start a family. Enter the slow, hopeful, devastating process of fertility treatments. While Laura prepares for IVF, Claire has her own encounter with the fertility industry.
Living Expenses interrogates the strain that can accompany even the strongest of relationships, and captures the inevitable creep of technology into all facets of its characters’ lives, from communication to reproduction.
Praise for Living Expenses:
“Vlassopoulos captures the seemingly endless heartbreak, bone-deep frustration, and often invisible emotional strain of infertility with both a realistic and empathetic eye. Living Expenses takes us on Laura’s complex journey and illuminates a rarely discussed yet all too common grief, doing so with humanity and heart. A thoughtful, compelling read about the challenges and benefits of holding onto hope.”—Stacey May Fowles
“In Living Expenses, Teri Vlassopoulos observes and honours the moments of her characters’ lives in her irresistibly reverent and revelatory way. Sweetened with nostalgia for a quainter, gentler internet, this story is a timely reminder of our acute need for caring connection.”—Jessica Westhead, author of Avalanche and Worry
Praise for Teri Vlassopoulos:
“Vlassopoulos has found a way to carry over the wide-eyed curiosity and innate goodness of childhood into the mysterious, often sad, often tragic world of adulthood.”—Montreal Review of Books
“Bats or Swallows manages to evoke not just the uncertainty and fear of young adulthood, but its magic and inexplicable excitement as well.”—Quill & Quire
ISBN: 9781778430671
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
320 pages