Heredity

Set in the London of 18th-century grave-robbers and 21st century DNA-cloners, HEREDITY weaves together sex, obsession, modern debates on infertility and cloning, and a crush on a 200-year-old skeleton. Flirting with the genres of a deadpan detective novel and a twisted historical romance, HEREDITY tells the story of Elizabeth Mann, daughter of a renowned infertility specialist whose obsession with an infamous 18th-century criminal will reveal the uncanny links between past, present and future, leaving the reader breathless for what happens next.

Jenny Davidson has published four novels and four books of literary criticism. She teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.