Clare Beams delves into the dark question of a woman's desperation to give birth in a dreamlike narrative with echoes of classic horror, blending fear, longing, and the intensity of childbirth and motherhood.
The novel intertwines themes of intense desire for gestation with a mysterious country garden that responds to women's needs, enabling the reanimation and resurrection of creatures, conveying the dread of miscarriage and childlessness.
Beams vividly describes the reality of miscarriage, balancing hope and dread, listening and feeling, in a slow-paced prose with an incantatory rhythm. The story navigates occult acts and transformations, creating a unique blend of themes that may captivate some readers while potentially appearing soporific to others.
Collection
[
|
...
]