Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Season of Monstrous Conceptions | 2023 | Lina Rather | Buy |
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions, published in 2023, is Lina Rather’s first full-length novel. Set in 17th-century London, it follows a midwife who begins noticing that the babies she delivers are being born with disturbing abnormalities. The story blends historical fiction with body horror and questions about what it means to bring life into a world that may be fundamentally broken.
Rather brings the same attention to faith and community that marks her space-set novellas to this earthbound historical setting. The midwife’s world is one of professional knowledge, religious conviction, and the daily reality of life and death in early modern England.