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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 team of doctors who are pioneering a cure, they say, to 'rectify the maternal environment'. There, she befriends Dorothy 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-forgotten walled garden on the spacious grounds, a place imbued with its own impenetrable powers and pulls. As the doctors' plans begin to crumble, Irene and her fellow patients make a desperate bid to harness the power of the garden for themselves - and must face the incalculable risks associated with such incalculable rewards. Haunting, uncanny and unforgettable, The Garden exhumes private griefs and mysteries in a stunning gothic that explores the ways that women's bodies are policed and manipulated.
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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 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 🤔 7mo
AardvarkBookClub @tpixie it‘s a really interesting and timely work of gothic fiction 💚 highly recommend! 7mo
tpixie @AardvarkBookClub thanks 😊 7mo
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