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There are some sizable flies in the ointment
of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two remarkable women
everything he once knew is turned upside down
The Birth of Love, Joanna Kavenna antiquarian give-away-all-his-money-goodVienna1865: Dr Ignaz Semmelweis has been hounded into a lunatic asylum, ridiculed for his claim that doctors' unwashed hands are the root cause of childbed fever. The deaths of thousands of mothers are on his conscience and his dreams are filled with blood. 2153: humans are birthed and raised in breeding centres, nurtured by strangers and deprived of familial love. Miraculously, a woman conceives, and Prisoner 730004 stands trial for concealing it.
