SISTERS OF SPICEFIELD
Book ID/图书代码： 03540013B60132
English Summary/英文概要： Jessica and Matt Davidson, middle-class Australians, have four children; three from IVF. When they donate one leftover embryo, it’s a gift of thanks to the world for their luck.
Seven years later, they are struggling to cope with the grief of losing their youngest child, Eeny, to a genetic condition. Their relationship is damaged, and their bond with their oldest child is strained. Then a new girl starts at the children’s school, and Jessica realises this child, Mia, is her biological offspring; the embryo born of she and Matt’s donation years before.
This book asks, as reproductive technology, adoption and divorce transform the idea of family, who has the right to love who? Can we push aside a biological bond, or not? It looks at the warmth and delight in sustained friendships between women. And most of all, it charts a family’s journey through grief after the death of a child, aided by their unexpected chance to help another child, and sees them reach a place of greater peace.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 杰西卡•戴维森和马特•戴维森是一对澳大利亚中产阶级夫妻，他们共同育有四个孩子，其中有三个是出自于人工受孕。当他们捐献了一个剩下的胚胎时，他们把它作为感谢世界赋予他们好运的回赠。
7年后，他们却在为当年失去的幺女艾妮悲伤不已。夫妻情分遭到破坏，与长子的关系更是紧张不已。一名新来的小女孩米娅开始就读于儿童学校，杰西卡发现她正是自己血缘上的女儿；她出生于自己和马特当年捐赠了胚胎之后。本书向我们提出了这样的困惑：随着生育繁殖技术的不断进步，收养与离婚正在不断改变我们的家庭观，这样的状况下，究竟谁拥有爱人的权利？而他又能去爱谁？我们能否真的撇开血缘联系？
本书探究了女性之间温暖而持久的友谊。最重要的是，通过伤痛一个孩子的离开，和获得能够帮助另一个孩子的以来之外的机会，并看着他们收获各自内心的宁静，本书带领我们历经了一次家庭之旅。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 弗兰•卡斯沃思，作家，记者，现与丈夫和两名幼子居住在澳大利亚墨尔本市。她在报刊行业工作了15年，在第一个孩子出生后开始创作The Love Child ，她挤出午休和乘火车的点滴时间进行创作。2006年，她辞去工作，与家人搬到了澳洲西部的一个远方小镇霍普顿。她的丈夫在当地的一个新镍矿里担任地质学家。她在当地居住了18个月，并完成了《霍普顿的妻子们》这一作品的创作，2009年由企鹅出版社出版发行。作者曾在多所大学学习写作，目前她正攻读博士学位，同时正致力于其下一部小说的创作。Fran Cusworth is an author and journalist who lives in Melbourne Australia with her husband and two young sons. She worked for 15 years in newswire and newspapers, writing The Love Child after the birth of her first child, snatching time during naps and trainrides. She quit her job and moved with her family to the tiny and remote town of Hopetoun, Western Australia, in 2006, where her husband worked as a geologist on a new nickel mine. She stayed 18 months and wrote Hopetoun Wives, which Penguin Australia published in 2009, before the family returned to Melbourne. She has studied writing at various universities, and is presently doing a PhD wilst working on her next novel.
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