tamaranth | 2020/147: The Echo Wife -- Sarah Gailey

2020/147: The Echo Wife -- Sarah Gailey

It was one of the things that made my work legal and ethical: each duplicative clone was an island, incapable of reproduction, isolated and, ultimately, disposable. It was bedrock. Clones don't have families. [loc. 468]

Excellent, dark and thought-provoking novel from the author of River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow. The first-person narrator of The Echo Wife -- a scientific genius and a woman who has put her career before everything -- is a compelling creation, and the story unfolds as weightily as a Greek tragedy.

Thanks to Netgalley for this advance review copy: proper review coming nearer UK publication, which is due on 18th February 2021.

(Meanwhile it's about time I read Gailey's Magic for Liars...)