The Garden by Clare Beams review – Mother Nature’s mystical powers

The Garden by Clare Beams review – Mother Nature’s mystical powers

A mysterious country garden responds to women desperate for a child in a sometimes slow-going chiller

What lengths would a woman go to if she were desperate to give birth? Clare Beams follows that question to its darkest ends in this dreamlike chiller, which carries shivery echoes of everything from Rosemary’s Baby to Pet Sematary.

In 1948, protagonist Irene Willard arrives at an archetypal gothic country house, where fertility doctors trial experimental procedures on women who’ve had multiple miscarriages. The mysterious country building comes with a mysterious country garden, and it’s to this darkly enchanted terrain that Irene and the other patients turn when the doctors’ schemes falter. Without giving too much away, it seems that the landscape responds to the women’s intense desire for gestation and birth by enabling the reanimation and resurrection of Mother Nature’s various creatures.

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