This lyrical debut novel examines the transformations of two women in the aftermath of the second world war "Pram Boy, pill-boy, you know who... it is you who will be carried / while the others are shed." Violets begins with a miscarriage and a conception in the final months of the second world war. Violet Hall, a newly married suburban wife who is doing war work in a Birmingham munitions factory, loses blood and the foetuses of two babies into a pail and has her womb removed by callously zealou...
This lyrical debut novel examines the transformations of two women in the aftermath of the second world war "Pram Boy, pill-boy, you know who... it is you who will be carried / while the others are shed." Violets begins with a miscarriage and a conception in the final months of the second world war. Violet Hall, a newly married suburban wife who is doing war work in a Birmingham munitions factory, loses blood and the foetuses of two babies into a pail and has her womb removed by callously zealou...
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