The birth of love : a novel /
Joanna Kavenna
- 1st ed.
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010
- 304 p. ; 21 cm.
In Vienna, 1865, a phyisican is ridiculed for his claim that unwashed doctor's hands are the cause of childhood fever. In present day London, a young woman plans for a home birth, unprepared for the trials she is about to endure. Somewhere in 2153, when humans are birthed and raised in breeding farms, a woman is on trial for concealing a pregnancy.--from publisher's description