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The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams

06 Feb 2020

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Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/398030to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Illness Lesson Author: Clare Beams Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 6, 2020 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Brilliant, suspenseful, beautifully-executed. With power, subtlety, and keen intelligence, Clare Beams has somehow crafted a tale that feels like both classical ghost story and like a modern (and very timely) scream of female outrage. A masterpiece.' Elizabeth Gilbert It is 1871. At the farm of Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, a mysterious flock of red birds has descended. Samuel, whose fame as a philosopher is waning, takes the birds’ appearance as an omen that the time is ripe for his newest venture. He will start a school for young women, guiding their intellectual development as he has so carefully guided his daughter’s. Despite Caroline’s misgivings, Samuel’s vision – revolutionary, as always; noble, as always; full of holes, as always – takes shape. It’s not long before the students begin to manifest bizarre symptoms: rashes, seizures, verbal tics, night wanderings. In desperate, the school turns to the ministering of a sinister physician – just as Caroline’s body, too, begins its betrayal. As the girls’ condition worsens, Caroline must confront the all-male, all-knowing authorities of her world, the ones who insist the voices of the sufferers are unreliable. Written in intensely vivid prose and brimming with insight, The Illness Lesson is a powerful exploration of women’s bodies, women’s minds and the time-honoured tradition of doubting both. © Clare Beams 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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