Delicate Condition

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'The feminist update to Rosemary's Baby we all needed' - ANDREA BARTZ
'A darkly visceral and magically evocative novel' - SARAH LAWTON
'A timely, terrifying, heartfelt thriller' - CHRIS WHITAKER

I wanted this baby so badly.
But she may be the death of me...

Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a gruelling IVF regime, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Crucial medicines are lost. Appointments are moved without her knowledge. She's sure she's being followed. And when she finally does get pregnant, someone breaks into her house and steals the ultrasound photograph of her baby. But despite everything she's gone through, not even her husband is willing to believe that someone is playing twisted games with her.

Then her doctors tell her she's lost the baby. Despite her grief, Anna ignores the grave-faced men lecturing her - because she can still feel the baby moving, can see the toll it's taking on her weakened body. Isolated in a remote snowbound town, Anna is sure that whoever has been following her is closing in on her and her unborn child. And as her symptoms become more terrifying, she can't help but wonder what exactly is growing inside her... and why no-one will listen when she says that something is horribly wrong.

Exploring visceral themes of loss, medical misogyny and female power, The Push meets The Silent Patient in this spellbindingly dark thriller.

Reviews

'A timely, terrifying, heartfelt thriller. I devoured it in one sitting' - Chris Whitaker, author of WE BEGIN AT THE END

'An absolute cracker of a read, one to be read by all women, everywhere. I could not put it down' - Lisa Hall, author of BETWEEN YOU AND ME

'Heartbreakingly visceral, eerie and intense, feeling, with every new turn of the page, what it's like for your body to no longer be your own. A spooky, devour-in-one-sitting story that's guaranteed to have everyone talking' - Leah Konen, author of ONE WHITE LIE

'Delicate Condition is the feminist update to Rosemary's Baby we all needed-a twisty page-turner with unsettling details and crackling writing that's also a timely critique of sexism in modern medicine' - Andrea Bartz, author of WE WERE NEVER HERE

'Dark visceral horror. Loved it' - Tina Baker, author of CALL ME MUMMY

Author Bio

Danielle Valentine writes bestselling YA horror under the name Danielle Vega. Her work, which includes The Merciless series and How To Survive Your Murder, has been optioned for film and television by Lionsgate and Warner Brothers, and has been translated into dozens of languages worldwide. Danielle lives outside of New York City with her husband and daughter. Delicate Condition is her first adult novel.