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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 GilbertIt 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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