Chapter 25
From Russia With Love
While other women her age might have spent their days and evenings shopping online for frocks and cosmetics, Megan trawled egg donor databases looking for her perfect baby match. There was a surfeit of agencies offering Eastern European women keen to sell their eggs.
She honed in on one candidate. There were three grainy photos of the donor as a pasty-faced child in Russia. Listed alongside the snaps were her vital statistics, medical background and temperament. In this case the woman was blonde, blue-eyed, slim and 170 centimetres tall – not so physically different from Megan. The donor was 33, lived in St Petersburg, had been married for five years, had two children and was a housewife. She described herself as sporty and social. In one photo the girl
