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

by Stacey May Fowles

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.

Genres: Nonfiction

208 pages, Hardcover

Published June 9, 2026

About the author

Stacey May Fowles is is an award-winning novelist, journalist, and essayist. She has written for the Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Torontoist, the National Post, Deadspin, Hazlitt, and Vice Sports, among others. Her most recent book, Baseball Life Advice, was published in spring 2017. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Reviews

[Alexis · Rating 4 out of 5]

A powerful book about infertility, early motherhood and the work and worry of motherhood. I like Stacey May's writing because it is always open, honest and true. This personal story will resonate with many women (even those like me who don't have children). This book gave me a lot of food for thought. Even as a woman who has never tried to have children, I could relate to the depression and anxiety, rebuilding your life, dealing with trauma, and being forever changed after.

The writer's drought part also resonated with me.

I hope a lot of people read this.

[Lottie C · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5⭐️

Short, but definitely packed an emotional punch