| Letter to a Child Never Born | |
| Title Orig: | Lettera a un bambino mai nato |
| Translator: | John Shepley |
| Author: | Oriana Fallaci |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
| Publisher: | Rizzoli (Italy) Simon and Schuster (US) Arlington Books (UK) |
| Pub Date: | 1975 (Italian) |
| English Pub Date: | 1976 (English) |
| Media Type: | Print (Book) |
| Pages: | 114 |
| Isbn: | 0-671-22374-7 |
| Dewey: | 858/.9/1407 |
| Congress: | PZ4.F192 Le PQ4866.A4 |
| Oclc: | 2493634 |
Letter to a Child Never Born (Italian: Lettera a un bambino mai nato, 1975) is a novel by Italian author and journalist Oriana Fallaci. It is written as a letter by a young professional woman (presumably Fallaci herself) to the fetus she carries in utero; it details the woman's struggle to choose between a career she loves and an unexpected pregnancy, explaining how life works with examples of her childhood, and warning him/her about the unfairness of the world. The English translation was first published in 1976.[1]
The book sold four million copies worldwide.