The Millstone
by Margaret Drabbel
Very peculiar. Quintessential scholar with not-so-great social skills gets pregnant by accident and is too shy, unassertive, and possibly conflicted, to terminate it in the early stages. Will she or won't she? Will she get dismissed from her position? Will she ever tell the father? Or even her own father?
I'm not telling. It sounds like a good little mystery but it's more--it's an introspection. And quite a good one. In the progress of her problem, she comes out of her private little world and observes the people around her, which adds a little picture of time and place made quite interesting by her unique perspective. The British Healthcare system seems amazing for its efficiency. I suppose rich people have private physicians, but the rest of us just go to the clinic. I'll admit she had a little trouble finding here to go from there, but at least she didn't have to manage ten different referrals and in-network/out-of-network claim forms.
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