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Book SynopsisFrom the critically acclaimed author comes an eerie, psychologically thrilling novel about womanhood and bodily autonomy
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''Pet Sematary meets Rosemary''s Baby with a literary sheen'' NEW YORK TIMES
''A feminist voice for the 21st century'' JOYCE CAROL OATES
''Prepare to be haunted'' RACHEL YODER
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It''s 1948, and Irene Willard has had five miscarriages.
She''s desperate to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and, now pregnant for the sixth time, checks in to an isolated house-cum-hospital run by a husband-and-wife team of doctors who are pioneering a cure, they say, to ''rectify the maternal environment''.
There, she befriends Margaret and Pearl, women who are also yearning for motherhood, and together, they undertake the doctors'' examinations, both physical and psychological. In the meantime, she discovers a long
