About the book: 2011 / Thirty-nine-year-old Maria Goncharova ends up in the prenatal department of one of the St. Petersburg hospitals in the middle of pregnancy with the threat of miscarriage. It soon becomes clear that the only way to carry the child she has long and passionately dreamed of is to lie in one position, holding her hands on her stomach. Her uterus lives its own life, constantly pushing out the baby. Doctors just shrug their shoulders, and the woman tries to hold out until the time of normal childbirth at all costs. Nearby are her roommates with their stories and her entire past life, which she turns to from time to time, trying to distract herself and cope with the situation. Maria’s attending physician, Margarita Veniaminovna Reutova, has been married for twenty years, but her husband cannot have children, and Reutova has practically come to terms with this. Unexpectedly, fate gives her the chance to give birth to a child from another person. But for this she needs to sacrifice a lot…