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"Genius."—The New York Times Book Review • “A teeming gothic.”—Vanity Fair • “Few novels of literary fiction are written as well as The Garden."—The LA Times
An eerie, masterful novel about pregnancy as a haunted house and the ways the female body has always been policed and manipulated, from the…
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What I've always loved about Clare Beams is exactly what she provides here: an immersive story gracefully told and set in a richly imagined world. At the center of this novel, Beams' second, is Irene Willard, who has retreated to a clinic in the Berkshires while she awaits the birth of her first child after five miscarriages. The clinic is run by a husband-and-wife team who are pioneering a treatment to prevent miscarriage by providing an ideal maternal environment. What Irene finds, however, is a place full of secrets, starting with a mysterious walled garden that Irene can't seem to…
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