When Flora gives birth to baby Iris a few weeks prematurely, her husband is still deployed overseas, and she finds herself struggling to cope alone. She starts to see strange beetle infestations, has night terrors, and her childhood imaginary friend re-emerges. In a moment of desperation, she emails her estranged mother, who responds by turning …
In 1965, in the Scottish Borderlands, Pearl finds herself pregnant and unmarried, so her parents send her to Lichen Hall, a strange, crumbling mansion on the edge of a wood in the middle of nowhere. She is one of a string of mothers who have been sent there to give birth in secret and have …
Revival Season is Monica West's debut novel, and it follows a Southern black Evangelical family, through the eyes of the main character, Miriam, the 15 year old daughter. Miriam's father is a Baptist preacher and faith healer, and each Summer they travel with him to tent revivals, where he heals the sick and injured through …
Alice Hoffman mixes the magical with the everyday, the mystical with the mundane. In this story, two women find their lives mixed up when one of them finds out she's pregnant. Rae ran away with her high school boyfriend seven years ago, but finds herself run out on when she turns out to be pregnant. …
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