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The Garden
The Garden | Clare Beams
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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 (…more)
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The Garden | Clare Beams
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Received #aardvark #aardvarkbookclub and #botm #bookofthemonth books! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Did anyone else get Volume 0, the short story collection??

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The Garden | Clare Beams
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“The Garden renders beautifully the uncanny, haunted space that pregnancy both occupies and creates. Beams‘s glancing, needle-prick prose reminds me of Shirley Jackson‘s work in its ability to conjure up women–their histories, their fears, the complexity of their desires, and their power. I loved this novel.”
– Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble

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The Garden | Clare Beams
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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).

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tpixie Sounds intriguing 🤔 11mo
AardvarkBookClub @tpixie it‘s a really interesting and timely work of gothic fiction 💚 highly recommend! 11mo
tpixie @AardvarkBookClub thanks 😊 11mo
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