The Doughnut Club

About this book

Quinn and her family are off on holiday again. For the next week she’ll have to pretend she enjoys surfing, rock-climbing and whatever other risky activity her mums and brother decide they’re going to do. But what she’d really like is to read a book or join an art class; sometimes she doesn’t feel she quite belongs. 

Her feelings of odd-one-outness are further complicated by the fact that she and her brother are donor-conceived children and Quinn is the only one with flaming red hair and green eyes. 

Then Mum and Mama reveal that the children have sixteen donor siblings and Quinn’s curiosity is aroused. What if she could meet some of them? And if she found she had more in common with them than with her own family, would she feel less disconnected? 

Containing explicit, but textually appropriate, explanations of donor conception from the start, Quinn’s journey of self-discovery is part nail-biting adventure and part intriguing mystery. Always engaging, with many chapters ending on a cliffhanger, this a book that’s hard to put down.    

Written in the hope of helping to ‘demystify the world of donor conception’, Quinn’s story is essentially about family, honesty, belonging and love.