The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits is a book of fictions, but they are also true. Over the last ten years, I have often stumbled over a scrap of history so fascinating that I had to stop whatever I was doing and write a story about it. My sources are the flotsam and jetsam of the last seven hundred years of British and Irish life: surgical case-notes; trial records; a plague ballad; theological pamphlets; a painting of two girls in a garden; an articulated skeleton.
Some of the ghosts in this collection have famous names; others were written off as cripples, children, half-breeds, freaks and nobodies. The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits is named for Mary Toft, who in 1726 managed to convince half England that she had done just that.
So this book is what I have to show for ten years of sporadic grave-robbing, ferreting out forgotten puzzles and peculiar incidents, asking 'What really happened?', but also, 'What if?
| ISBN: | 9781860499548 |
| Publication date: | 6th June 2002 |
| Author: | Emma Donoghue |
| Publisher: | Virago Press Ltd an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 212 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits is a book of fictions, but they are also true. Over the last ten years, I have often stumbled over a scrap of history so fascinating that I had to stop whatever I was doing and write a story about it.
The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction, Fiction
Paperback. £9.89, down from the £10.99 cover price. In Stock.
The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits was written by Emma Donoghue and published by Virago Press Ltd an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits has 212 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.
