"The Jane Network" comes back strong when abortion rights are threatened

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Holly Goli and Rowenabookine, bloggers and contributors to the 20 Minutes Books reading group, recommend "The Jane Network" by Heather Marshall, published on March 14, 2023 by Charleston Publishing.

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Why this book?

• Because this novel is based on real facts. At a time when abortion rights are declining in the United States, this novel is more relevant than ever. Indeed, the main subject of the novel focuses on abortion in Canada and the fight for the right to terminate a pregnancy. We will follow this evolution, from clandestinity to legality, through the voices of three women who will all experience an event related to this.
• Because this novel is one of the huge favorites of the Charleston Readers 2023. Indeed, it is one of the novels that marked them at the beginning of the adventure and their opinions are raving about this novel by Heather Marshall.
• Because I thought I had experienced all the possible emotions during this reading, the author gives us a huge turnaround at the end, which left me speechless. I closed the book wanting to start it again after this incredible revelation that made my heart panic and my eyes fog.
• Because this book is above all a human story, with a lot of solidarity and mutual aid. A story of sisterhood to help women who need these clandestine abortions. Some women risked big to save others. Ordinary women become heroines.
• Because Heather Marshall's pen is magnificent. It takes to the heart and the body. It is impossible to let go of the novel before knowing its end. And then the construction through three female voices makes the novel unique and striking.

The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot. Pregnant with a child she does not want, Nancy Mitchell approaches Dr. Evelyn Taylor to have an abortion. She must follow the rules scrupulously if she wants to avoid prison. Later, she joined the Jane Network to help women in the same situation as her.

The characters. In this story, there are three characters, three women more precisely. Evelyn in the 1960s, Nancy in the 1980s and Angela in the 2010s. These three women have an important history, they are all linked, mainly through the Jane Network.

Places. The story takes place in Canada, in different parts of the country.

The time. The novel takes place in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in our present time.

The author. After a career in political communications, Heather Marshall turned to her true passion: storytelling. Her first novel, The Jane Network, topped the charts in Canada upon its publication and is being translated worldwide.

This book was read with emotions that went through every possible state: anger, tears and more. The Jane Network is an incredible story, a feminist novel certainly, but one that shows that every woman should be free to dispose of her body and her ideas. A real success!

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