Brooding: The emotional, thought-provoking novel about motherhood, secrets and lies

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Claire is expecting a baby. It's her dream but not everyone is as supportive as she'd like . . .

Isolated and vulnerable, she is drawn into an online group for 'natural motherhood' and is warmly embraced by the sisterhood.

As Claire withdraws further into their world and with her due date fast approaching, she is unsettled by the group's conformity and the total shunning of medical intervention.

But blind loyalty can be catastrophic - and her silence could be fatal . . .

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Celia Silvani is a thirty-year-old charity communications manager and freelance writer, who has written for Stylist, The Telegraph and BBC Future on topics ranging from weddings to hurricanes. She got the inspiration for BROODING from an NBC article she couldn't stop thinking about, and interviewed midwives and obstetricians to get a fuller picture of birthing stories - as well as spending a lot of time lurking in the dark corners of internet freebirthing groups...