Childsong

By Barbara Wood

Book Overview

From master storyteller Barbara Wood comes an engrossing suspense novel about a young girl caught between the possibilities of science and the mysteries of faith.

According to the doctors, seventeen-year-old Mary McFarland is pregnant. But Mary knows she is a virgin, despite her strange symptoms. In 1960s America, a woman's worst social disgrace is to become pregnant out of wedlock. A good Catholic high school girl, Mary suddenly finds herself at the center of a scandal, rejected and ostracized by family, friends, and even her priest. Although she believes emphatically in her own innocence, no one else believes the truth. When a doctor begins to wonder if Mary's claim to innocence could possibly be justified, he begins to investigate. The scientific theory he develops to explain her pregnancy is so bizarre and such a medical oddity that he knows the McFarland family, the church--and the world--will very likely refuse to accept it. But if he is right, what kind of child is Mary carrying? Mary and her family are suddenly trapped in a chilling conflict between the possibilities of science--and the mysteries of faith.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596528664
• ISBN13: 9781596528666
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Turner
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

You Must Decide For Yourself...

I purchased this book a few years back. We took this book with us on vacation. Be prepared, this is a book you will read in one sitting. It's an American tale of morality, disbelief, and betrayal that will strike a chord in all people of both sexes and every religion. When the vacation was nearing it's end, every adult, save one, in our group of 11 had read the book, and thoroughly enjoyed it. They were all ready to discuss it around the campfire. It made for some fasinating conversation. I was amazed how such a close knit group of people could all read the same book and come to so many logical conclusions. Set in modern times it's a well written, gripping, emotional, exciting, thought provoking, controversial, entertaining & well researched American novel. Another reason why Barbara Wood is an undiscovered American Treasure.