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The Children's Hospital

A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, assailed by mysterious forces, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny. Simultaneously epic and intimate, wildly imaginative and unexpectedly relevant, The Children's Hospitalis a work of stunning scope, mesmerizing detail, and wrenching emotion.

Genre
fantasypost-apocalypticscience fictionmagical realismdystopia
Themes
religionmedicaldoctors
Setting
2000s
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 615 pages

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