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The Growing Season
The Growing Season | Helen Sedgwick
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Now anyone can have a baby. With FullLifes safe and affordable healthcare plan, why risk a natural birth? Without the pouch, Eva might not have been born. And yet she has sacrificed her career, and maybe even her relationship, campaigning against FullLifes biotech baby pouches. Despite her efforts, everyone prefers a world where women are liberated from danger and constraint and all can share the joy of childbearing. Perhaps FullLife has helped transform society for the better? But just as Eva decides to accept this, she discovers that something strange is happening at FullLife. Piotr hasnt seen Eva in years. Not since their life together dissolved in tragedy. But Piotrs a journalist who has also uncovered something sinister about FullLife. What drove him and Eva apart may just bring them back together, as they search for the truth behind FullLifes closed doors, and face a truth of their own. A beautiful story about family, loss and what our future might hold, The Growing Season is an original and powerful novel by a rising talent.
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JennyM
JennyM
The Growing Season | Helen Sedgwick
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Birth inequality has been eliminated with the baby pouch, allowing men and women to have babies. But is there something more sinister at play?

This is turning into an excellent listen!!!

Joanne1 Intriguing? 6y
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TheBookAddict
TheBookAddict
The Growing Season | Helen Sedgwick

Oh my, this sounds quite interesting! It‘s discussed in this podcast. #BookishPodcast
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/books-and-authors/id331296649?mt=2&i=1000392...

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Moray_Reads
Moray_Reads
The Growing Season | Helen Sedgwick
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What if there was a way to make pregnancy possible for everyone? To share it equally? To make it completely safe? In a different 2017 babies have been born via pouch for 2 generations but is the science as perfect as it seems? A hard-hitter that tackles our unequal society, the nature of science and its relationship to capitalism and what choice really means. A brilliant, powerful story that eschews any easy answers #signedsunday

Moray_Reads TW: a short but upsetting scene of stillbirth 7y
jhod Ooh, thanks for the review, I just got this out the library yesterday as thought the blurb looked intriguing 7y
Tamra Though, there will probably always be people like me who had no interest in birthing and always wanted to adopt. 😁 7y
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Moray_Reads @Tamra it does also talk about the impact on adoption. It pretty much hits all the angles! 7y
Moray_Reads @jhod it's very good. Lots of uncomfortable food for thought 7y
Tamra @Moray_Reads sounds like a good food for thought read! Stacked 7y
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The Growing Season | Helen Sedgwick
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What if having a child was not just restricted to women? What if the technology existed to grow a baby outside the human body? How would that shape the world, parenthood, family, the medical system? A thought provoking read that questions all of these things, and shows how, even with the best of intentions, a good idea can be perverted and exploited and how we have to fight to keep those intentions pure. A wonderful, balanced and cautionary tale.

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