As a fatherless girl with a mother who persistently encouraged her daughter’s artistic temperament, Anna Wells is highly sensitive to the life developing in her when she discovers she is pregnant. Anna’s gynecologist boyfriend, Kevin, considers the time just not right to have children, so Anna moves to a 100-year-old house in Bareneed, an abandoned cove in Newfoundland, where she takes comfort in renovating the interior of her new home and working on a series of paintings detailing roses.
Paralleling Anna’s own journey is a minutely detailed, day-by-day development of the embryo. All goes well until a car arrives delivering a court summons. Kevin has filed a statement of claim seeking the termination of the embryo as "return of property."
One night, while still in Bareneed and upset over the impending legal action, Anna discovers an abandoned little girl almost frozen to death in her front yard. Mysterious circumstances continue to surround the children in Bareneed as pro-choice and pro-life factions marshal their forces.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781554889228 9781554889211
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.H3495
- LCCN Item number
- R45 2011eb
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- 1 electronic text (347 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00227956 (OCoLC)682257977 (CaOOCEL)439661
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 5
- Copyright 6
- Dedication 7
- Epigraph 9
- Part I - Conception 11
- Chapter One 13
- Chapter Two 33
- Chapter Three 45
- Chapter Four 61
- Chapter Five 77
- Chapter Six 86
- Chapter Seven 98
- Chapter Eight 113
- Chapter Nine 125
- Chapter Ten 147
- Part II - The Famous Baby 171
- Chapter Eleven 173
- Chapter Twelve 189
- Chapter Thirteen 212
- Chapter Fourteen 219
- Chapter Fifteen 235
- Part III - Court 261
- Chapter Sixteen 263
- Part IV - The Third Accident 285
- Chapter Seventeen 287
- Chapter Eighteen 313
- Chapter Nineteen 325
- Chapter Twenty 335
- Part V - The Exhibit 345
- Chapter Twenty-One 347
- Acknowledgements 351
- About the Author 352
- More Great Fiction From Dundurn 353