The Lost Season: A Memoir of Infertility, Motherhood, and the Worry and Work Demanded of Women - Hardcover

by Stacey May Fowles (Author)

One of Indigo's Most Anticipated Books of 2026.

The bestselling author of Baseball Life Advice, Stacey May Fowles returns with the honesty, humour, and heart that readers love in a memoir exploring infertility, motherhood, mental health, and the work demanded of women.

After years of struggling with the pain of infertility, Stacey May Fowles had her beautiful daughter. But while motherhood brought with it many joys, it also meant losing so much of what had gotten her through those years of wanting. With her characteristic introspection, Stacey May explores what it means to create life with a traumatized body, the sometimes uncomfortable fit of wearing both motherhood and ambition, and the ways in which our ideas of how a mother moves through the world limit and hurt us--and often sever our connections to one another. 

The follow up to Baseball Life Advice, a Globe and Mail and National Post best book, The Lost Season is a raw, powerful exploration of undoing and becoming.

Author Biography

Stacey May Fowles is an award-winning journalist, author of six books and editor of four anthologies. Her writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Reader's Digest, Elle Canada, Toronto Life, The Walrus, and many others. Her non-fiction collection, Baseball Life Advice, was a national bestseller, and was selected by the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Maisonneuve as a best book of the year, and her children's book, The Invitation, was named a Best Book for Kids by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. Fowles lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.