The Coming Thing
by Martina Evans
Buy on AmazonIn The Coming Thing, Martina Evans offers a powerfully realised world—Cork city in the 1980s—and an unforgettable narrator, Imelda, on a journey to England for an abortion. From the strictures of a Republic which denied Irish women bodily autonomy until constitutional change in 2018, Evans creates an Everywoman on the brink of the digital age.
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"In The Coming Thing, Martina Evans offers a powerfully realised world—Cork city in the 1980s—and an unforgettable narrator, Imelda, on a journey to England for an abortion. From the strictures of a Republic which denied Irish women bodily autonomy until constitutional change in 2018, Evans creates an Everywoman on the brink of the digital age."
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