The Birth Machine by Elizabeth Baines - Women's Press - Used

Condition: Very good for age, see photos. Name of previous owner written in pen on first page. 1983. Rare edition - Apparently Baines was displeased with the ordering of chapters in the first edition and in 1996 released a self-published restored version

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'She shivers in the hospital corridor, new admission for induction of labour. Nine o'clock on a Monday morning in January, in the early nineteen-seventies.

The age of technology...'

Zelda is a 'good girl' who has made a 'good' marriage. She is accustomed to please. Yet as her body is divided and her baby wrenched from her, rebellion rises in her; she enters a surreal world where past, present and deeper levels of myth, and childhood fairytale are nightmarishly confused.

The Birth Machine is a disturbing and powerful first novel by a talented new writer who uses language to pleasure and surprise.