The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna

The Birth of Love

Joanna Kavenna

320 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

fiction historical science fiction challenging reflective medium-paced
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From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writers, an epic novel of childbirth—past, present, and future The year is 1865. In Vienna, Dr. Ignasz Semmelweiss has been hounded into an asylum by his medical peers, ridiculed for his claim that docto...

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