The Pure Gold Baby: A Novel

An "achingly wise" novel about the challenges of motherhood: "Admirers of Marilynne Robinson will find themselves very much at home in this book" (The Wall Street Journal).

Jessica Speight, an anthropologist in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair turns her into a single mother. Baby Anna is delightful—but with time it becomes clear that she is different from other children. Told from the point of view of Jess's fellow mothers, this is a movingly...