About the book: 2024 / Ro is a lonely schoolteacher, she is writing a biography of the polar explorer Ivar Minervudottir and desperately dreams of becoming a mother. Susan is a mother and housewife who is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Mattie is a talented student whose plans for the future are disrupted by an unexpected pregnancy. Jean is a healer, a forest dweller who brings all these women's destinies together, finding herself in the very center of a modern witch hunt.…