Sue Bedford is a practising nutritional therapist with a specialist interest in women's health, fertility and child nutrition, and Clare Goulty an experienced writer and magazine editor. Both have been through successful IVF procedures; both wished that such a book had been available to them at the time. Sally Cheshire, who has provided the opening chapter for this book, is the Chair of the HFEA, and was appointed CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2017.