{"product_id":"the-birth-machine","title":"The Birth Machine by Elizabeth Baines - Women's Press - Used","description":"\u003cp\u003eCondition: 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Women's Press Ltd\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe age of technology...'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZelda 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Birth Machine is a disturbing and powerful first novel by a talented new writer who uses language to pleasure and surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Little Truck Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58603916591439,"sku":"070433917X","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1033\/5492\/5391\/files\/3452CD48-1E27-4A38-85FC-2721EB62EA5D.jpg?v=1788172117","url":"https:\/\/littletruckbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-birth-machine","provider":"The Little Truck Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}