The Birthing House
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Conrad and Joanna Harrison, a young couple from Los Angeles, attempt to save their marriage by leaving the pressures of the city to start anew in a quiet, rural setting. They buy a Victorian mansion that once served as a haven for unwed mothers, called a birthing house. One day when Joanna is away, the previous owner visits Conrad to bequeath a vital piece of the house's historic heritage, a photo album that he claims "belongs to the house." Thumbing through the old, sepia-colored photographs of midwives and fearful, unhappily pregnant girls in their starched, nineteenth-century dresses, Conrad is suddenly chilled to the bone: staring back at him with a countenance of hatred and rage is the image of his own wife....
Thus begins a story of possession, sexual obsession, and, ultimately, murder, as a centuries-old crime is reenacted in the present, turning Conrad and Joanna's American dream into a relentless nightmare.
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Eine interessante Geschichte über ein Haus, das mal als Geburtshaus diente und eine dunkle Geschichte hat. Zwischendurch war ich doch oft verwirrt und der Irrsinn der Geschichte nahm immer mehr zu, bis es sich am Ende zuspitzte und man nicht mehr wusste, was hier egtl los ist. Gruselig, düster, merkwürdig und ein pageturner. Nur das Ende hätte ich mir anders gewünscht, denn es lässt noch fragen offen.
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Conrad and Joanna Harrison, a young couple from Los Angeles, attempt to save their marriage by leaving the pressures of the city to start anew in a quiet, rural setting. They buy a Victorian mansion that once served as a haven for unwed mothers, called a birthing house. One day when Joanna is away, the previous owner visits Conrad to bequeath a vital piece of the house's historic heritage, a photo album that he claims "belongs to the house." Thumbing through the old, sepia-colored photographs of midwives and fearful, unhappily pregnant girls in their starched, nineteenth-century dresses, Conrad is suddenly chilled to the bone: staring back at him with a countenance of hatred and rage is the image of his own wife....
Thus begins a story of possession, sexual obsession, and, ultimately, murder, as a centuries-old crime is reenacted in the present, turning Conrad and Joanna's American dream into a relentless nightmare.
Book Information
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Eine interessante Geschichte über ein Haus, das mal als Geburtshaus diente und eine dunkle Geschichte hat. Zwischendurch war ich doch oft verwirrt und der Irrsinn der Geschichte nahm immer mehr zu, bis es sich am Ende zuspitzte und man nicht mehr wusste, was hier egtl los ist. Gruselig, düster, merkwürdig und ein pageturner. Nur das Ende hätte ich mir anders gewünscht, denn es lässt noch fragen offen.