A review by laurenbookwitchbitch
Garden of Earthly Bodies by Sally Oliver

3.0

I was lucky to get an ARC of this book through my local bookstore. “A Garden of Earthly Bodies,” - Sally Oliver (coming out June 2022), is a dark twisted, medical/eco suspense tale of mystery and suspicion. It begins with Marianne finding a growth of thick black hair along her spine. She tried to cut it out, pull it out, but no avail. When her doctor recommends her to a modern rehabilitation center called Nede, Marianne is hesitant, but finally accepts the offer. The longer she stays there however she finds it is much darker, more deadly and sinister then she could have imagined. What started as seemingly benign hairs turn out just be the tip of the iceberg as she is confronted with her repressed trauma and memories she thought she could never recall. This is a dense read, one teeming with psychological deterioration, cycles of pain and grief about how the most haunting of ghosts aren’t far away phantoms…but our own minds and bodies.