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Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
In a near future, Roe v Wade has been overturned in the United States and abortion is now illegal. There is a Pink Wall between the U.S and Canada that prohibits any woman from travelling between countries for healthcare, and a law is about to come into effect that will prohibit single women from availing of IVF treatment or from adopting a child.
Four very different women are affected in several ways by this, or other matters pertaining to childbirth or pregnancy.
Ro, a schoolteacher & biographer, is undergoing fertility treatment but must succeed before a new law is passed that prohibits single women from accessing IVF.
Mattie, a teenage schoolgirl, fears she may be pregnant.
Susan, a mother of two, spends her days daydreaming about what her life could have been like had she not married her husband. Or what it would be like to leave.
Gin lives alone, in the woods, and provides "help" to women who need it via her herbalism.
I loved this - the language is frank and may be shocking to those who don't swear, but this is a book I will remember for a very long time.
I received an e-copy from the publisher via Netgalley, and I am loathe to admit that it took me an embarrassingly long time to get round to reading it.
Four very different women are affected in several ways by this, or other matters pertaining to childbirth or pregnancy.
Ro, a schoolteacher & biographer, is undergoing fertility treatment but must succeed before a new law is passed that prohibits single women from accessing IVF.
Mattie, a teenage schoolgirl, fears she may be pregnant.
Susan, a mother of two, spends her days daydreaming about what her life could have been like had she not married her husband. Or what it would be like to leave.
Gin lives alone, in the woods, and provides "help" to women who need it via her herbalism.
I loved this - the language is frank and may be shocking to those who don't swear, but this is a book I will remember for a very long time.
I received an e-copy from the publisher via Netgalley, and I am loathe to admit that it took me an embarrassingly long time to get round to reading it.