Overview

• The 480-page memoir published mid-2025 by btb Verlag has become a New York Times bestseller in its German edition
• At age 36 Ardern sought medical advice after months without conceiving and details numerous injections, blood tests and clandestine appointments
• She reflects on giving birth to daughter Neve in June 2018 as only the second serving head of government to do so and resuming duties six weeks later
• Ardern revisits her internationally praised crisis management of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings and New Zealand’s COVID-19 response
• The book positions her personal journey as a case study for justice-driven governance and a new model of political cooperation