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Hall, Louisa, 1982-2024
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A woman begins work on a novel about Mary Shelley while pregnant for the first time. Recently married, she has just moved from New York to Montana. As the woman writes, fragments of Shelley's story begin to detach themselves from the page. Moving through her reproductive years, Shelley endured a catalogue of losses painful beyond comprehension. Still, she wrote, conceiving 'Frankenstein' in 1818. The woman's experiences of pregnancy, miscarriage and labour are traumatic and disorienting, especially in the context of political upheaval, climate crisis, and an ongoing pandemic. Finally, she gives birth to a daughter and together they emerge into another world. Then a friend from the past reappears. Anna is a biochemist who has been struggling to become a parent, a scientist who sees everything as an experiment. How far will she go in her desire to bring a baby into being?
Main title:
Reproduction / Louisa Hall.
Author:
Hall, Louisa, 1982-, author
Imprint:
London : Scribner UK, 2024.
Collation:
224 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781398522466 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
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BRN:
2436805
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