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These Are Our Children
On sale
1st August 2013
Price: £6.49
Florence is pregnant and 99% sure it’s her husband’s. But it could be Thomas’s.
Thomas is a neo-natal doctor whose invention could save premature babies.
Helen is a midwife grieving for her baby, lost before the technology was invented.
This is a novel that explores what love can drive us to do; searingly funny, audaciously smart and devastatingly moving.
Thomas is a neo-natal doctor whose invention could save premature babies.
Helen is a midwife grieving for her baby, lost before the technology was invented.
This is a novel that explores what love can drive us to do; searingly funny, audaciously smart and devastatingly moving.
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Reviews
'A remarkable book ... elegantly written, intricately and plausibly plotted with some stunning surprises. A page-turner, in fact. More, it is moving about miscarriage, about childbirth, in a way that is exceptional' Craig Raine.
'Julie Maxwell's second novel is written with waspish wit and is unflinching in its examination of an under-discussed area of women's experience' Carla McKay, Daily Mail.
'Singular and memorable, alarmingly frank, terrifyingly fearless, funny, clever, thought-provoking ... She uses comedy to lower your guard, then skewers you with impossibly difficult moral issues ... This is a truly adult read, demanding that we flex our intellectual and ethical muscles' Jane Housham, Guardian.
'An original and witty writer who deserves to be better known' Joanna Kavenna.
'She wields a feistily original brand of wit and she marshals a capacity for ethical debate that feels so unstrained ... Occasionally dazzling' Julie Myerson, The Times.
'Excellent ... It's all there: humour, wisdom, commitment to the difficult truth. And most basic and most important of all, good writing' Claire Lowdon, TLS.