If I’m honest it’s took me longer than expected to get into this book. I think the premise is very interesting. It’s set in Oregon, in a time when abortion and IVF are illegal and adoption is only available to legally married couples. Although Red Clocks is a work of fiction, Zumas states that most of the details have been drawn from claims proposed by American government officials at one time or another.

The novel follows the experiences of four women, whom we hear from one at a time, chapter by chapter. But it isn’t until around page 200 when we begin to realise how the stories of these women intersect both in regards to the overarching plot and also in the roles these women are forced inhabit – The Wife, The Biographer, The Daughter, The Mender.

Frequently compared to Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and Naomi Alderman’s “The Power”, Red Clocks explores similar questions of motherhood, identity, freedom and what it means to be female in the modern world.