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A review by katykelly
The Growing Season by Helen Sedgwick
4.0
A concept that you can't help but want to know more about - men and women can now share the responsibility, the joys, of looking after a baby in the womb, via a pouch that can be worn by either for nine months.
This simple concept brings us into contact with several characters - the first woman to bear a child via the pouch - Holly, and her granddaughter Rosie, about to give birth to a son herself, the third generation in the family to do so. Other characters involved in FullLife come to the fore - journalists looking at the pouch and its science, men and women connected to the company and pouches, and babies produced by it.
Is there a conspiracy? Is FullLife hiding something?
In a rather intriguing book (the NHS is dead, men take pouches to work with them), the well-created world has you entranced by the concept of the pouch. I really wanted to see it, to understand its mechanism.
I did wonder where it was all leading, though I enjoyed my journey through the world, I did get a little confused at times which story we were following, who was who. There were hints of mystery and intrigue, and though all was explained, I had thought it was heading in a different direction.
Definitely one that gives pause for thought, makes you reconsider your own views on parenting and gender. Some emotional scenes that may upset.
With thanks to Netgalley for the advance e-copy.
This simple concept brings us into contact with several characters - the first woman to bear a child via the pouch - Holly, and her granddaughter Rosie, about to give birth to a son herself, the third generation in the family to do so. Other characters involved in FullLife come to the fore - journalists looking at the pouch and its science, men and women connected to the company and pouches, and babies produced by it.
Is there a conspiracy? Is FullLife hiding something?
In a rather intriguing book (the NHS is dead, men take pouches to work with them), the well-created world has you entranced by the concept of the pouch. I really wanted to see it, to understand its mechanism.
I did wonder where it was all leading, though I enjoyed my journey through the world, I did get a little confused at times which story we were following, who was who. There were hints of mystery and intrigue, and though all was explained, I had thought it was heading in a different direction.
Definitely one that gives pause for thought, makes you reconsider your own views on parenting and gender. Some emotional scenes that may upset.
With thanks to Netgalley for the advance e-copy.