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🤱The Mothers put Australian writer Genevieve Gannon in the spotlight and once again she captivates her audience with her latest composition, a dystopian-inspired tale titled Inheritance. A dual timeline narrative that takes the reader to 2027 and 2057, issues of motherhood, family, creation, health, survival and perfection take the floor.

🤱Imagine you could create a child of your own who is almost perfect in every way? This is the scenario put forward in Genevieve Gannon’s new novel. Emily is a woman who wants to start family in the best way possible by utilising a service that allows a child to be created using a gene editing process. It is controversial but this new technology offers so much to families. Years into the future we learn of a project that is under fire from a surprise threat. Inheritance sees the collision of the past and the future with unexpected eventualities, making us all think deeply about our future generations.

🤱Inheritance takes on a pretty bold and topical subject matter. Technology, health, politics, research and fertility all come into play in this morally charged novel from Genevieve Gannon. I do love to sink my teeth into a social dilemma-style novel and this one comes with some side dystopian themes. I appreciated the opportunity to put myself in the characters' shoes and the problems they face in this tale. It was uncomfortable, perplexing, divisive and emotional at times, but definitely challenging. I think Gannon makes a number of good points here around motherhood, personal rights, the place of technology and society. It is almost a tad nightmarish to think that the world presented here in this novel may actually be a real possibility some time soon. Scary indeed!

🤱Take an ethical quandary and add in realistic characters along with emotionally charged writing with a critical lens and you have Inheritance. Inheritance is a recommended read.

🌟🌟🌟🌟4 stars, out now!

Thank you to @panterapress for the review copy.