![]() ![]() Jean arranges for Gretchen and Margaret to undergo medical tests at Charing Cross Hospital to prove if parthenogenesis actually took place. Jean also meets Gretchen’s charming 10-year-old daughter, Margaret, and her dedicated husband, Howard. Cecilia’s, with rheumatoid arthritis at the time of conception. ![]() Wanting to keep an open mind, Jean meets with the no-nonsense Gretchen, who was confined to an all-female nursing home, St. Her new assignment is to interview Gretchen Tilbury, who claims to have delivered a child through virgin birth. ![]() Jean works as features editor for the North Kent Echo. In Chambers’s affecting latest (after the YA mystery Burning Secrets), the year is 1957 and Jean Swinney is a single Englishwoman approaching 40 who cares for her demanding mother and lives for the small pleasures in life-like pottering in her vegetable patch or loosening her girdle at the end of the day. ![]()
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