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The Testament of Jessie Lamb

by Jane Rogers

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First published
2011
Pages
265
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Jane Rogers's The Testament of Jessie Lamb sets a YA-adjacent novel in a near-future Britain where a virus has made every pregnancy fatal to the mother. Society has fallen into multiple competing factions arguing about what to do about it. Jessie, sixteen years old, decides she wants to volunteer to be a Sleeping Beauty, a young woman who will be impregnated with a vaccinated embryo and kept in induced coma until the birth, after which she will die.

Rogers writes Jessie's first-person narration with painful honesty. Jessie is a teenager. Her reasons for the choice are tangled with adolescent idealism, family conflict, and her own difficulty understanding what death actually means.

The book is structured as Jessie's testament, written or recorded as she explains herself.

For readers who liked Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy or Naomi Alderman's The Power, this is in adjacent territory. Shorter, more focused on a single family. Booker longlisted for good reason.

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Jane Rogers

Jane Rogers (born 1952) is a British novelist, editor, scriptwriter and teacher. She was admitted to the Royal Society of Literature as a Fellow in 1994, and in 2012 she received the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her titles include "The Testament of Jessie Lamb".

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First published
2011
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
265
Language
English
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