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In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty and property to every embryo.

In a small Oregon fishing town, several very different women navigate these barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity and freedom: Ro is a single high-school teacher trying to have a baby, whilst writing a female polar explorer's biography. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is a pregnant teenager, one of Ro's best students, who has nowehere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling homeopath, or "mender", who brings them all together when she's put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt.