The Growing Season
by Helen Sedgwick
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Pub Date 7 Sep 2017 | Archive Date 7 Oct 2017
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Harvill Secker
Description
Now anyone can have a baby. With FullLife’s safe and affordable healthcare plan, the brave new world is here.
Without the pouch, Eva might not have been born. And yet she has sacrificed her career, and maybe even her relationship, campaigning against FullLife’s biotech baby pouches. Despite her efforts, everyone prefers a world where women are liberated from danger and constraint and all can share the joy of childbearing. Perhaps FullLife has helped transform society for the better? But just as Eva decides to accept this, she discovers that something strange is happening at FullLife.
Piotr hasn’t seen Eva in years. Not since their life together dissolved in tragedy. But Piotr’s a journalist who has also uncovered something sinister about FullLife. What drove him and Eva apart may just bring them back together, as they search for the truth behind FullLife’s closed doors, and face a truth of their own.
A beautiful story about family, loss and what our future might hold, The Growing Season is an original and powerful novel by a rising talent.
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Praise for The Comet Seekers
An exquisitely layered, thrilling novel, which leaps across centuries
and continents to delve into the role of destiny and the elusiveness of
perception and memory.
New York Times
A magical debut…a gorgeous novel that should resonate with fans of
Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveller’s Wife… A breathtaking tale full
of love, hope and heartbreak. You’ll be utterly captivated from the
first page.
Elle
Her laconic tone and measured prose belie the novel’s dramatic content…
Sedgwick is a highly evocative writer who makes excellent use of nature
to showcase her themes… Her charming debut maps the world’s big
questions on an even larger plane.
Irish Times
Beautiful, sad, moving, fascinating and original. I loved it.
Marian Keyes
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781911215950 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 320 |
Featured Reviews
Kim R, Reviewer
What a strangely captivating book this was.
The plot surrounds a technology that has allowed anyone to gestate a baby using a synthetic pouch which is capable of getting nutrients to the baby and replaces the need for an actual womb. The techno,off proves to be amazing for some but there have always been protestors who think using the pouch is wrong.
When problems begin occurring with babies born from the pouch a mixed group of characters must work to figure out why this is happening. Have they reintroduced infertility with the pouch?
Sedgwick has laid out this story beautifully and I found it to be a very engrossing read.
Lucy W, Reviewer
What a thought provoking read. FullLife's baby pouches enable parenting to be totally equal - either partner can carry the pouch, and a safe gentle birth is guaranteed. Or is it? Holly Bhattacharyya is the first woman to choose the pouch over natural birth, and it's now the turn of her granddaughter Rosie to do the same. Since the launch of the pouches there has been a small undercurrent of protest and investigation, and again this continues through the generations with Eva and Piotr picking up the research of Eva's mother. As the stories come together, the reader has to consider the ethical issues for themselves, and consider whether technology could really take us to such a place in the future. This is going to stay with me for some time while I have a good old think about it.
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