02381cam a2200361 i 4500 2357444497 TxAuBib 20240425120000.0 240328s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023009601 9780385548182 hardcover 0385548184 hardcover 9780593466544 trade paperback 0593466543 trade paperback (OCoLC)1428132176 DLC eng rda BUL BUL OCLCO YDX BDX GCV HQD BKL GL4 OCLCQ OCLCO MWD IMT YU6 NRJ TxAuBib rda Beams, Clare, author. The garden [LEASEDBOOK] : a novel / Clare Beams. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2024] ©2024. 289 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "From the author of the critically acclaimed The Illness Lesson ("astoundingly original"--NYTBR), comes a a page-turning and psychologically penetrating tale about the rules that govern women's bodies and lives. In 1948, Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now pregnant again, comes to an isolated house-cum-hospital in the Berkshires, run by a husband-and-wife team of doctors who are pioneering a cure for her condition. Warily, she enlists herself in the efforts of the Doctors Hall to "rectify the maternal environment," both physical and psychological. In the meantime, she also discovers a long-forgotten walled garden on the spacious grounds, a place imbued with its own powers and pulls. As the doctors' plans begin to crumble, Irene and her fellow patients make a desperate bid to harness the power of the garden for themselves-and must face the incalculable risks associated with such incalculable rewards. With shades of Shirley Jackson and Rosemary's Baby, The Garden delves into the territory of motherhood, childbirth, the mysteries of the female body, and the ways it has always been controlled and corralled"-- Provided by publisher. 20240425. Women Fiction. Pregnancy Fiction. Miscarriage Fiction. Gardens Fiction. Nineteen forties Fiction.