Afterbirth by Emma Cleary Dark fantasy Whatever made her family immortal

Whatever made her family immortal happened here

Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude has always preferred the company of the spirits of the meadow to any of the suitors who’ve tried to woo her

Recent stage-productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream have emphasised the enchanting

Your soul for his―and now

mutilated specters overwhelm her with increasing regularity

Afterbirth by Emma Cleary Dark fantasy Whatever made her family immortalAn unsettling, hypnotic descent into the visceral heart of mommy horror, Afterbirth is a story of fractured sisterhood, aching hunger, and irrevocable transformationreverberating with the echoes of classic horror cinema. In the wake of a fraught and ill omened romance, Brooke arrives in Vancouver to care for her sister Izzy, who is preparing to undergo reproductive surgery. But Izzys rapidly decaying apartment building, its hallways stalked by an