Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Katherine Carlyle, Paperback / softback Book

Katherine Carlyle Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Out of stock

Description

In the late 80s, Katherine Carlyle is created using IVF.

Stored as a frozen embryo for eight years, she is then implanted in her mother and given life.

By the age of nineteen Katherine has lost her mother to cancer, and feels her father to be an increasingly distant figure.

Instead of going to college, she decides to disappear, telling no one where she has gone.

What begins as an attempt to punish her father for his absence gradually becomes a testing-ground of his love for her, a coming-to-terms with the death of her mother, and finally the mise-en-scene for a courageous leap from false empowerment to true empowerment. Written in the beautifully spare, lucid and cinematic prose that Thomson is known for, Katherine Carlyle uses the modern techniques of IVF and cryopreservation to throw new light on the myth of origins.

It is a profound and moving novel about where we come from, what we make of ourselves, and how we are loved.

Information

Other Formats

£10.99

Out of stock
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information