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The Garden : A Novel

โœ Scribed by Clare Beams

Book ID
115014913
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2024
Tongue
en-US
Weight
697 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780385548199

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โœฆ Synopsis

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE LA TMES AND LIT HUB
The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically thrilling tale of women yearning to become mothers and the ways the female body has always been policed and manipulated, from the award-winning author of The Illness Lesson("A masterpiece" - Elizabeth Gilbert)
In 1948, Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now pregnant again, comes to an isolated house-cum-hospital in the Berkshires, run by a husband-and-wife team of doctors who are pioneering a cure for her condition. Warily, she enlists herself in the efforts of the Doctors Hall to "rectify the maternal environment," both physical and psychological. In the meantime, she also discovers a long-forgotten walled garden on the spacious grounds, a place imbued with its own...

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