The Mune
by Sue Dawes
MIT Press / Goldsmiths Press
Paperback, 336pp.
Thirty ‘surplus’ mothers from asylums, workhouses and the streets of Victorian England are shipwrecked on an island in an alternate universe. To survive, they must create a new society amid the lethal black sands and mysterious beasts. How will they shake off the patriarchal chains that
bound them and raise their children to be free? How will Betty, who longs to be back under the guidance of her master, survive, as the community evolves? And who is watching them?
Cover illustration Heather Ryerson
Series design Kir
Series Gold SF
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