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  The Birth Machine (Paperback) By (author) Elizabeth Baines

  

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  Short Description for The Birth MachineAs Zelda labours in childbirth, she sinks into a surreal world where the past blends with the present, and facts become merged with fairytale and myth. The long-awaited reissue of the groundbreaking eighties novel, which exposed a woman's experience of hi-tech childbirth, tells a gripping story of a long-ago murder and present-day betrayals.
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  • Publisher: Salt Publishing
  • Published: 01 November 2010
  • Format: Paperback 141 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781907773020 ISBN 10: 1907773029
  • Sales rank: 376,403

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Full description for The Birth Machine

• Tucked up on the ward and secure in the latest technology, Zelda is about to give birth to her baby. But things don't go to plan, and as her labour progresses and the drugs take over, Zelda enters a surreal world. Here, past and present become confused and blend with fairytale and myth. Old secrets surface and finally give birth to disturbing revelations in the present. Originally published in the eighties, "The Birth Machine" was seized on by readers as giving voice to a female experience absent from fiction until then. It was acclaimed as a significant event in women's publishing and quickly became a classic text. Out of print for some years, "The Birth Machine" is now reissued in a revised version (which first appeared in 1996). Still very relevant today to modern Obstetrics and Medicine, "The Birth Machine" is however more than that: it is also a gripping story of buried secrets and a long-ago murder, and of present-day betrayals. Above all, it is a powerful novel about the ways we can wield control through logic and language, and about the battle over who owns the right to knowledge and to tell the stories of who we are. The book was dramatised for Radio 4 and starred Barbara Marten as Zelda.