Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World
By Liza Mundy
Allen Lane £20, 406 pages
FT bookshop price: £16

How should Beth Parab, an Episcopal minister preparing to baptise the Ramirez test-tube triplets (Preston, Edward and Hunter), respond to their mother Laura’s request to incorporate egg donor Kendra Vanderipe into the ceremony? This dilemma kicks off Everything Conceivable and exemplifies Liza Mundy’s approach.